Quotes About Mourning

What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?

When people leave this Earth, their loved ones always weep." She smiled. "But I promise you, those who leave do not.

they felt the dead daily, hourly, as they lived their lives, and their feeling of the dead was important to them, an important part of what made up their particular way of living, and not to be hidden from, for it could not be hidden from, it could not be hidden from at all.

Suffice to say that theirs had been an unusual love, with such a degree of commingling of identities that when Chris died, erica felt she had lost herself; even now she did not know if she could be found p.104

I have done what mourning I had to do already; I have no desire to give over more days of my life to satisfy conventions that are not mine. I am of the old religion, Grania; we do not believe in death. And so we do not allow it to triumph over life and twist and torture the living. There is...lifework to be done here.

The Magnati have all been summoned for the funeral, and I'll be announcing our betrothal once they're gathered.

He's mourning his son, number 3000 American dead in Iraq, but as far as he can feel, the worst one.

They wept no animal's tears. They mourned in a great wickerwork of hard muscle and ragged breath. The hot smell of their coats, their black lips pulled back over ivory teeth, stiff sprays of white whiskers; their heavy hair plaited with silver and faience. Their thick hides shivered, as cattle will shiver away flies. I sweated and tried not to clear my throat.

Los muertos nunca acuden a su propio entierro.

The dead never go to their own funeral.

La muerte tiene estas cosas: a todo el mundo le despierta la sesiblería. Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.

Sabien que aquell dia una llum s'apagava al món i que, a partir d'ara, tots estarien més sols, més buits.

La muerte tiene estas cosas: a todo el mundo lo despierta la sensiblería. Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.

I have lost you, my brother And your death has ended The spring season Of my happiness, our house is buried with you And buried the laughter that you taught me. There are no thoughts of love nor of poems In my head Since you died.

I mourned for a life that I'd lost.

keeping as idly busy as possible on apps and websites, which may be the best inventions for not mourning when you're mourning.

I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing in a Saviour. It is not resolving, it is not complaining, it is not mourning, but believing, that will make thee divinely victorious over that body of sin that to this day is too strong for thee, and that will certainly be thy ruin, if it be not ruined by a hand of faith. (Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 220)

Jude waited at all the evening downstairs. At a very late hour the intelligence was bought to him that a child had been prematurely born, and that it, like the others, was a corpse.

The dogs were really keening now, like Irish widows.

ce que nous appelons la douleur n'est peut-être pas tant le regret que nous éprouvons de cette impossibilité de voir les morts revenir à la vie que notre impuissance à le souhaiter.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out.