Quotes About Mourning

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

We don't help people mourn in our society.

I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for character work as an actor because you're fighting the cause or mourning the child or fighting the disease, etc.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers - struggle more than the rest of us to make sense of the reality of war.

'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.

I think the demise of a marriage is like a death, and there is a mourning that goes with it. It's devastating.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

The nature of most Covid-19 deaths, in hospital or a care home away from family and friends, has made it worse for the people they leave behind. In the absence of the traditional rites and rituals of funeral and mourning - the opportunity to just share a hug - the process of bereavement has been made even harder to bear.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

Over a million people. So fast. Gone, just like that.

I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.

Era il suono di mille bambini affamati che piangevano, di diecimila vedove che si strappavano i capelli sulle tombe dei mariti, un coro di angeli che intonava l'ultimo lamento nel giorno della morte di dio

accepting death folds the soul, tempers and layers it like a Damascus blade. When I'd thrown myself into the canal in grief, only to be pulled out by the Moor, I'd become colder, more durable.