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Quotes About Mourning

When they were done, the stones lay heaped upon the still form. The crowd dispersed like crows flying from empty bones. The elders picked up their robes and walked away. The mob was now silent. No one met the gaze of his neighbor. They drifted away, until only Ezra stood at one side, Saul on the other.
~ Janette Oke
A masterbard's given duty was to ease the hearts of the bereaved.
~ Janny Wurts
There is something stupid about raw events of which Destiny, if it exists, cannot be insensible. There is something stupid about self-evidence and truth from which a superior irony cannot but spare us. Thus everything is expiated one way or another. Forgetting or mourning are no more then the period of time required by reversibility.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Bir baÅŸka deyiÅŸle kitlelerin Beaubourg'a koÅŸmalar?n?n nedeni yüzlerce y?ld?r kendilerini yoran, b?kt?ran bu kültür kar??s?nda salya ak?tmak deÄŸil, her zaman nefret etmiÅŸ olduklar? bir kültürün yas?n? tutma f?rsat?n? kitle hâlinde ilk kez ellerine geçirmiÅŸ olmalar?d?r.
~ Jean Baudrillard
This was more than death, it was the heart's death.
~ Jean Cocteau
ship returned from Jamaica — withou' Sammy. He had died of fever in the West Indies.
~ Unknown
And memories, sometimes, are places we go to honor the dead.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I hate this hospital. I sat in the car like this after my wife died. Staring out of the windscreen seeing nothing. The whole day passed and then it was night and nothing had changed because everything had changed.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad about her death, for my death, for all the inevitable dying that comes with change. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Il fut mis dans une maison de charité, où l'âge et le regret de se voir loin de sa famille le mirent au tombeau presque en arrivant.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
She found her very pale and very still, all the life gone out of her.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
~ Edward Hirsch
My dad died of a stroke.
~ William Shatner
Every officer, every deputy, every agent we lose is one too many. It's a loss to our organizations, of course, it's a loss to our community, and most importantly, it's a devastating loss to the loved ones they leave behind.
~ Christopher A. Wray
We don't drink to forget. We drink to remember.
~ Unknown
Others specializing in the field of grief recovery state that the most difficult time following the death of a loved one is usually between seven and nine months afterward.
~ Unknown
Human Remains Pouch. We don't call them body bags and they are not black, like the movies. This one was white with a long black zip.
~ Tony Parsons
I said she's gone but I'm alive, I'm alive I'm coming in the graveyard to sing you to sleep now
~ Tori Amos
I mourn my loved ones amongst the living, whom I will watch over and protect from my place at the side of the Goddess, until such time as we are united in the Otherworld, or in the next earthly life.
~ Unknown
She often told her children that they couldn't change the past and they couldn't jump forward to the future. All they had was today, and they needed to live it in such a way that they wouldn't create just another regretted yesterday. Mourning the past was never productive-she knew this full well.
~ Tracie Peterson
Beautiful day for a funeral, I thought.
~ Unknown
back before both his father and Char had died from the weird sickness that swept the palace a few years ago.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Queen Glacier is dead,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
he'd died when the volcano erupted.
~ Tui T. Sutherland