Quotes About Mourning

They were my parents. Dead. They died in their bed under freakish circumstances three months ago, leaving my brothers and me devastated and bankrupt.

He got sick with meningitis when the boys were just three, and we lost him.

Maeve had been dead for almost a year now, and in all that time, I hadn't found any new ways to cope with it -- only new ways to miss her.

Dr. Sven Wallace. That is, up until last year around this time, when Wallace died suddenly of a heart attack. He

Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.

No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

But us women, well, we like our egos stroked every once in a while and a boy mourning over us is a huge boost

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...

They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions-- only those who do it well and those who don't. And if death is regarded as an embarrassment or an inconvenience, if the dead are regarded as a nuisance from whom we seek a hurried riddance, then life and the living are in for like treatment.

I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions---only those who do it well and those who don't.

What we call mourning for our dead is perhaps not so much grief at not being able to call them back as it is grief at not being able to want to do so.

On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!

a dozen funeral pyres were ablaze at the same time. Black smoke the color of despair rose from those pyres.

I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.

I used to believe that it was not possible to lose someone I loved without sensing it somehow, without feeling something shift. But it's not true. People can die, sometimes the closest people to us, without us noticing a thing.

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next.

I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all the world as one's last touch of control.