612 Quotes About Mourning

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

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 house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate.

I don't reproach the spring for starting up again.I can't blame it for doing what it must year after year. I know that my grief will not stop the green.

I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows of things gone; not just the people themselves but everything connected to them. Was this my future? Every moment, every tiny thing I saw and did and touched, weighted by loss. Every space in this house andmy town and the world in general, empty in a way that could never be filled.

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.