Quotes About Mourning

Grief doesn't come in the moment of loss. It comes in the quiet of the aftermath...she didn't feel grief. In a way, what she felt was emptiness. Her mind told her he was dead. Her heart was not there yet.

I had been to visitations before and have been to many since and I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good-bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.

Studies have shown that fathers of murdered children often die within a few years of the murder, often of heart failure. Really, they die of grief.

threnody through the postmortem

Is she dead?" "No." "A pity.

Each person's grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed. That doesn't mean needing someone to try to lessen it or reframe it for them. The need is for someone to be fully present to the magnitude of their loss without trying to point out the silver lining.

wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called an orphan. There is no word for a parent who loses a child. Lose your child and you're… nothing. —Tennessee Williams

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

I will miss a good friend who was so talanted. He was such agreat performer/ guitar player. Sleep well Prince.

The King had been a good friend of the government and the people of South Africa and we all mourn his passing with our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.

I got bored, " he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment.

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.