Quotes About Mourning

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.

How one deals with the death of a loved one is a highly personalized affair. Some people weep for days; others take a hike in the woods or count rosary beads.

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.

The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!

Everyone has to go to a funeral at some time and you need to be dark and sombre, and in a black tie.

it talks to your corpse with gentle words.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Grief is a species of idleness.

God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

To church; and with my mourning, very handsome, and new periwig, make a great show.

I to church, and with my mourning, very handsome, and new periwigg, make a great shew.

And both of them are crying then, caught again in the surprise of their grief. After a year of mourning, they know they will not die of it, but neither expects it to go away. Maybe neither of them would want it to go, because then what would be left?

It is not right in a house serving the Muses to have mourning. For us it is unbecoming.

Happy?" Delilah spluttered. "About someone being dead? Are you serious?

There was something unbearable about the damp, dark earth closing over a coffin and the still, empty flesh that was inside. She had attended a hundred funerals, but when you really loved someone there was something too final about a burial. Something brutal.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

Perhaps the most dehumanizing thing in Gaza is people there don't have the time to properly mourn the dead before strikes kill even more

It was hard having a dead hero for a best friend.

Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.

We do not mourn the loss of those who die fulfilling their destinies.