612 Quotes About Mourning
- Author Edwidge Danticat
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Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.
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- Author Marie Howe
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--One day it happens: what you have feared all your life,the unendurably specific, the exact thing. No matter what you say or do.
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- Author Theodore Roethke
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I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss?--
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- Author Edna St. Vincent Millay
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You leave me much against my will.
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- Author Robert Pinsky
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But someone I know is dying--And though one might say glibly, "everyone is,"The different pace makes the difference absolute.
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- Author Carita Nelson
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She let out a scream. Her anguish cracked against the rocks and came back as an unfamiliar voice......Her pain carried on the wind and drowned out the world that had gone so easily without her.
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- Author Czesław Miłosz
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How to resist nothingness? What powerPreserves what once was, if memory does not last?For I remember little. I remember so very little.
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- Author Elizabeth Bishop
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...The day was meant for what ineffable creature we must have missed?
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- Author Anoir Ou-Chad
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When someone is mourning, there is absolutely nothing you could say to alleviate their pain. Just sit with them, hold their hands, and be present and compassionate.
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