Top Mourning Quotes

All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five stages. Others say that grief should only last two years at the lost, otherwise it's "abnormal". Pu...

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Mourning Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mourn

(n.) The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.

(n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black.

(a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting.

(a.) Employed to express sorrow or grief; worn or used as appropriate to the condition of one bereaved or sorrowing; as, mourning garments; a mourning ring; a mourning pin, and the like.

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when...

Why do they lie? she asked herself aloud. They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.

Why did you revive me? Alecto repeated. Well… uh, well…. Mandy hesitated, her voice full of sudden misery. They say there are five stages of grief, you know… five stages. denial, anger, bargaining, de...

Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.[Matt 5:4]

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with...

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them.

We never stopped being each other.

The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, wh...

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

{} heart was fathomlessly deep, long acquainted with humility, patience, sacrifice. His little home amid the roses was austerely simple; he knew the worthlessness of luxury, the joy of few possessions...

There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again

What is it like when you lose someone you love? Jane asked.You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.

I’ve been alive a long time, long enough to know that the more baggage you carry in life, the more unstable you’ll be, until eventually you get sick of carrying it, and then you just fall down.

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. I did not pray for h...