Quotes About Mourning

This is because my husband had died a year earlier; also I am often despondent at the end of a book tour, and this had been made worse because I no longer had David to call from the road. That was the hardest part of the tour for me: not having David to speak to each day.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Mourning over personal sin and failure is an indispensable stage in the process of sanctification, and it is facilitated by fasting.

They are still looking for me. They rage for me. They mourn for me. They call for me. They are my remnants.

La tristeza no desaparece, pero la desesperación debe ser contenida, pues no honra al que ha partido.

The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.

Losing a family member is extremely difficult for anyone to take. But the normal reaction is to want to get back to your work as soon as you can.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

Death's in the good-bye.

I had never experienced the death of someone close to me until my grandfather passed away.

Men like Sunil Dutt should not be mourned, only envied for their greatness.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Servicemembers deserve time to grieve the loss of their child instead of being forced to return to work.

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

You turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, that I might sing praises to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever! —Psalm 30:11–12

Easter would be coming soon, but her mother was still dead.

And when he beheld their dark sails, smutted by the burning tar that had blinded their enemy, he believed them blackened in mourning for the young man, and he threw himself down, and so perished. For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.

When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.

In every parting there is an image of death.