Quotes About Mourning

The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks

Um velório deveria ter a beleza do outono, toda a beleza do último adeus.

the joy to come front and center in your life, you also have to feel your emotions, even the sad ones. You have to mourn, let the tears pour out. If you bottle the sadness in, the joy gets bottled right along with it.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Tears won't saturate the dead and weeping will not raise him from his grave, if he has one. We should do for the living what we are unable to do for the dead.

My mother died yesterday, yesterday many years ago. You know, what amazed me the most the next day after her leaving was the fact that the buildings were still in place, the streets were still full of cars running, full of people who were walking, seemingly ignoring that my whole world has just disappeared. (rough translation)

Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the dead care?

Snowman wakes before dawn.

It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.

I didn't want to identify the body, or see it at all. If you don't see the body, it's easier to believe nobody's dead.

How long were you supposed to mourn, and what did they say? Make your life a tribute to the loved one.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.

I agree with you that Gilead ought to fade away-there is too much wrong in it, too much that is false, and too much that is surely contrary to what God intended-but you must permit me some space to mourn the good that will be lost.

Their mother died early, and not in a good way. Not that anyone dies in a good way, Tin footnotes to himself, but there are degrees. Being hit by a truck after closing time while jaywalking blinded with mournful tears was not a good way. Though it was quick.

But I know this isn't true. It is just passing the buck, as children do, to mothers. I've mourned for her already. But I will do it again, and again.

Mourning is a river that carries us to joy. Sometimes we need to give space for grief in order to make room for joy.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

I was for some time quite beside myself and could not believe that Providence could have required the presence of this indispensable man in the other world so soon.

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better.

Why didn't I know about this, Gideon? Lady Augusta demanded, clearly aggrieved at not being first with the news. And what Welsh aunt is this? Auntie Angharad, Gideon informed her solemnly. Lady Augusta thought for a moment and then declared, You don't have an Auntie Angharad! No, he agreed in a sorrowful voice. She's dead.