Quotes About Mourning

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Death deserves dignity.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince.

I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Part of elegy is confrontation - not just with the idea of death, but with the person who has died.

A phone at a cemetery would be ringing off the hook. If you could get them on the phone . .

Por outro lado, é justamente o que há de normal nos funerais o que os torna mais dolorosos, mais um registro da realidade da morte que avassala tudo.

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride In her sepulchre there by the sea — In her tomb by the side of the sea.

To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning of the Beatitudes, this cryptic ethical core of Jesus' teaching?

Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.

And we hardly ever speak of her. It is as if we cannot bring ourselves to speak of her as dead, and we cannot lie to ourselves that she is still alive.

No, Leweth. You fled to remember. You fled to conserve all the ways your wife had moved you, to shield the ache of her loss from the momentum of others. You fled to make a bulwark of your misery.

My first day back was a nonevent. I expected kids to make a big fuss and tell me how sorry they were about my dad and about the accident.