Quotes About Mourning

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

A moment later, in an even fainter voice, he whispered, Do not mourn me

Die Lieder der Toten sind die Wehklagen der Lebenden.

Los cantos de los muertos son los lamentos de los vivos.

Los cantos de los muertos son el lamento de los vivos.

Il canto dei morti è il pianto dei vivi.

The dead might bleed, but they never cry.

She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she had already gone into mourning for; then he reminded himself that she was the type of woman who mourned damaged reputations and lost opportunities, not human beings.

I was not sorry when my brother died

He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.

She tends the fire Burning his letters. They turn black like thin mourning dresses. Yellow names, leaping; above them a blonde woman's hair on her bare shoulders. Red hollow glowing beneath. Illusion of passion. Like fragile layers of widow weeds, matted bluish, shiny, worn and buttons, yes, cheap buttons and words. Her fingers touch the smooth skin on her breasts. She tends the fire.

Protestors? At a funeral?

doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief.

Grief is individual. Some like it public, some like it private. For some, it's complicated because their relationship with the dead was complicated.

The Grinbergs drew upon Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theories40 and showed how guilt over loss of parts of the self—that is, the immigrant or the refugee's previous identity and his or her investment in the land and people left behind—may complicate the newcomer's mourning process

Thus, just as we must mourn the passing of those we love, so too do we need to mourn when intimately hated persons or things are lost, although we usually try to deny this.

If the child's image of a dead father created only or mostly in fantasy is idealized—dead soldiers are usually idealized as heroes—the mourning over losing them (their fantasized images) becomes more difficult. There is psychological resistance to giving up a hero constructed in one's mind and making him an average dead man.

Without mourning, in its psychoanalytic sense,113 an apology and forgiveness can neither be given nor received by groups that have been traumatized by others.

Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself with the night.

It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.

There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.

There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children.