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Quotes About Mourning

In the days following, he can hardly manage to comb his hair or convince his fingers to button his coat. His mind plays tricks, too: he walks into a room and forgets why he's there. He stares at a superior and forgets what the man just said.
~ Anthony Doerr
Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!" He kept the anniversary as a day of deep mourning.
~ Anthony Everitt
Nice day for a funeral.
~ Anthony Horowitz
That's the thing about funerals. They're completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it's not true.
~ Anthony Horowitz
My father passed away in 2005, and day after, I sat in my flat in Woolwich on my bed, and I feel that I saw him.
~ Ashley Walters
Many corpses will be floating in the sea.
~ Thaksin Shinawatra
If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
~ Valorie Curry
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
~ Gustave Flaubert
A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
~ Frank McCourt
People deal with death differently; some even laugh at funerals.
~ Finn Wolfhard
Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.
~ Clarence Darrow
I done been to so many funerals.
~ Jay Rock
Funerals should celebrate a life.
~ Gavin Esler
There are no foodies at funerals.
~ Tom Junod
I cry at births and not at funerals.
~ Gavin Esler
To make sure I learned the etiquette of grieving, Granny took me with her to the many funerals she attended. O Death, where is thy sting? Search me. I grew up looking at so many corpses that I still feel a faint touch of surprise whenever I see people move.
~ Florence King
I will await below," Stilgar said, "while Idaho makes farewell with his friends. Turok was the name of our dead friend. Remember that when it comes time to release his spirit. You are friends of Turok.
~ Frank Herbert
E la vittoria in quel giorno si cambiò in lutto per tutto il popolo, perché il popolo seppe, in quel giorno, che il re piangeva suo figlio.»
~ Frank Herbert
He nodded. "Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And he closed his eyes, thinking: Now, my father, I can mourn you. And he felt the tears coursing down his cheeks.
~ Frank Herbert
He turned away from her, looking out into the night. Why can't I mourn? he wondered. He felt that every fiber of his being craved this release, but it would be denied him forever.
~ Frank Herbert
Emme saa surra rakkaitamme ennen kuin he poistuvat keskuudestamme.
~ Frank Herbert
We mourn lives lost. Including our own.
~ Frank Miller
I was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.
~ Craig David
When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.
~ James E. Faust