Quotes About Mourning

Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'

And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.

El mundo entero, el cielo, el mar y la tierra se aprestaban a dar postrer adiós al guerrero divino y salvaje, el Pélida Aquiles, príncipe de Ftía.

Esta es la verdadera gloria, wanax Odiseo; el llanto de quien nos ama cuando dejamos este mundo.

The never ending alarms, the never ending phrases, the never ending hanging out of flags, now in triumph, now in mourning—it all produces apathy. And everyone feels helpless, and everyone knows he is being lied to, and everyone is told what he has to believe

The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What's left: a hole in the ground the size of violence.

The way grief is really about future absence.

This time gap can never be overcome. The difference is called grieving.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

The thing that eventually strikes you about the death of someone you love is the permanence. When that hits, there is an overpowering sense of loneliness and aloneness. Those wounds do not remain raw, not forever, but they do remain.

Anyway, they took her body to McBurney's Funeral Home in Motley. They'll be planting her tomorrow.

That's it. I'm asking you, I'm really asking you—how is it possible that we aren't in a permanent state of mourning?

He remembered the faces of his friends, bereft poor corpses, abandoned of life.

But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time.

Flow my tears, fall from your springs! Exiled forever let me mourn; Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings, There let me live forlorn.

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women always put on too much makeup when someone dies.

But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time. The most absolute, overpowering experience you can feel, therefore. Sometimes I swear we weren't constructed to go through such a thing; it's too much - your body damn near self-destructs with all that heaving and surging.

Naturally, Mrs. Knudson wore too much makeup; women always put on too much makeup when someone dies.

It is said that the gates of paradise can only be opened by the tears of those left behind. I do not know whether that be true. It should be, I think.

He had watched her, after all, mourn her husband's death and it had been for her in part the discovery that grief could attach itself with permanence - something Ishmael had already discovered. It attached itself and then it burrowed inside and made a nest and stayed. It ate whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it.

The Thanksgiving myth casts the Wampanoags in 1620 as naive primitives, awestruck by the appearance of the Mayflower and its strange passengers. They were nothing of the sort. Their every step was informed by the legacy of the many European ships that had visited their shores and left behind a wave of enslavement, murder, theft, and mourning.

She might be all right, Freddy said. But she sure is dead.