Quotes About Mourning

I like to read Octavia E. Butler's 'Wild Seed' over and over again. And J. California Cooper's 'The Wake of the Wind.' That one makes me cry from joy. I'll mourn - I'll actually mourn - and then I'll cry from joy. She's wonderful.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

March 11, 2004, now occupies a place in the history of infamy.

The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present'...'Then maybe we're not mourning the future,' I said. 'We're mourning ourselves.

Father John told the mourning priest, "Join your grief with the grief of others, and then you will find it easier to carry.

Andy also skipped his wife's private burial in the Brooklin Cemetery, in July, 1977. None of us in the family expected otherwise or held this against him. And when his own memorial came, eight years later, I took the chance to remark, "If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Isn't the most sensitive point of this mourning the fact that I must lose a language — the amorous language? No more 'I love you's.

It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the emotion of loss (I do not weep), that is all. For the rest, everything has remained motionless. For what I have lost is not a Figure (the Mother), but a being; and not a being, but a quality (a soul): not the indispensable, but the irreplaceable.

Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.

After the death of John Laurens, Hamilton shut off some compartment of his emotions and never reopened it.

Death and loss Perhaps you are depressed because you have lost someone. You need to know Jesus said He came to comfort all those who mourn in Zion. He came with the oil of gladness. Understand this: there is nothing wrong with legitimate mourning. If you have had a death in your family, you are not demon possessed or

They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.

There is very little said about how repetitious grief is.

And although the mourners well hid their irritation, it was inevitable that there were some who were impatient. If you are dead, stay dead, someone muttered.

In the bitter air, the grieving were wreathed in white by their sighs.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

But it wasn't until much later that I learned the sad facts of his death or the sadder ones of his life. By then I could be found in the pavement cafés of Sour Bridge, with a set of my own.

After Justin's death she had had it cut short, and felt that it was more becoming than the heavy masses of long hair he had loved, and which took forever to dry and dress. The short, well-styled hair toweled dry in a few minutes, and fell in becoming waves over her high forehead, her small delicate ears, showing the graceful curve of her neck.

The leaves crisping at their edges. Here is a season Hamnet has not known or touched. Here is a world moving on without him.

If a child's development is impeded because of incomplete mourning of a loss, that child will be handicapped in acquiring the mutuality necessary for building an integrated identity and maintaining strong emotional ties

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.