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Quotes About Mourning

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.
~ Katherine Paterson
I would have preferred raised stones as markers," she said simply, and he understood that she was confiding a deeply private thing to him. "I imagined something upright, tall, with chiseled angels rising from it. I wanted a curved elaborate script to spell their names, a poem or a prayer carved into marble. I wanted a building built. A mausoleum.: She sighed. "I wanted something as magnificent as grief.
~ Kathleen Cambor
Conner hadn't liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he'd learned from his grandmother's funeral that you have to go. It's expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a lot—is tucked into your pocket and carried away.
~ Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson
Fred's Jewish students recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning. "He who makes peace in His heights, may He make peace upon us and upon all Israel," they read.
~ Kathryn Casey
post mortem triste
~ Ken MacLeod
Ei n-au înÈ›eles un lucru: c? un om e mai viu în momentul în care moare. ToÈ›i vars? lacrimi, i se iart? toate f?r?delegile, toÈ›i îl cinstesc.
~ Kenizé Mourad
Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
~ byron lord ii
No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.
~ C. S. Lewis
In the end, I realised it was about mourning someone and being betrayed by a second of happiness that makes you forget your loss for a moment, and then feeling worse because that unthinking instant of happiness ends up feeling like a betrayal of the lost one.
~ C.A. Fletcher
She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who'd died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.
~ C.S. Harris
They told me,Heraclitus,they told me you are dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed... I wept when i remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking,and sent him down the sky.
~ Callimachus
Grief and sorrow are one and the same. But until you feel regret for what is now forever out of reach, you do not truly mourn.
~ Cameron Dokey
But I am not the true thief, father. You have robbed yourself. You have no peace because you cling to sorrow and anger. You have no peace because you do not mourn.
~ Cameron Dokey
To heal, we must do more than grieve. We must also find a way to mourn.
~ Cameron Dokey
But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
~ Gayle Forman
It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.
~ Gayle Forman
cloying your-best-friend's-dead sympathy that will drive
~ Gayle Forman
The sky was dark and drizzly, as if the world wept for what it had lost.
~ Gena Showalter
John said: "Your father is dead." And I said: "Thank God." John
~ Geoffrey Wolff
How does this even happen? How can someone you love be there one second and then gone the next?
~ Ilona Andrews
I was mourning the old me. For the new me to emerge, the old me had to disappear, and killing her bit by bit hurt.
~ Ilona Andrews
A familiar pang pierced me, worry mixed with anxiety and a dash of mourning.
~ Ilona Andrews
Brutus was dead. His body lay under an oak on the Hendersons' lawn. A small group of neighbors had gathered around his corpse, their faces sad and shocked.
~ Ilona Andrews
Barna står ved kirkeporten. Gå og hent dem der. De som har mistet barna sine, kan gå og hente dem ved kirken.
~ Irene Nemirovsky