Top Mourning Quotes

Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.

Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the hous...

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.

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.

Mandy, I hardly think this was appropriate, not after… you know… after the funeral we haven’t had the money for any of your weird little games and I was hoping you’d be more mature now that Jud’s gone...

The mourning of a loved one never ends with a funeral. It comes back every so often, like a stage performer eager for a curtain call and expects you to be loud about it....I gave it all the lung capac...

Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.

BERNARDA.— Las mujeres en la iglesia no deben mirar más hombre que al oficiante, y a ése porque tiene faldas. Volver la cabeza es buscar el calor de la pana.MUJER 1.— (En voz baja) ¡Vieja lagarta reco...

To all the motherless daughters out there; may your heartache serve you in the best of ways. May your grief give you a better understanding of yourself, may your sentiment allow you to express and cre...

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there foreve...

Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life befo...

They don't want to see me lose my home. They want me to come to my senses before it's too late. I need a better way to cope with my feelings of loss and guilt. I need bereavement therapy. Here are som...

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen’s lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. Take these, she told Lorraine. We can’t eat them all, but Helen won’t stop baking.Sweetheart, Lorraine s...

It is the blight man was born for. It is Margaret you mourn for.

No longer married, suddenly I was . From Latin, the name means emptied. Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our live...

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.

Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists o...

From Orient PointThe art of living isn't hard to muster:Enjoy the hour, not what it might portend.When someone makes you promises, don't trust herunless they're in the here and now, and just herwillin...