612 Quotes About Mourning

It doesn't seem enough, and as he starts them off, you want to call after him, tell him how you too question the ways of faith, the injustice, the never-ending losses, that it stuns you too, that you still grieve for Mrs. Goetz and Arnie and Eric Soderholm just as their families do, though everyone else seems to have forgotten. Lydia Flynn, the tramp behind Meyer's, the men in the swamps of Kentucky. If a sparrow fall, you want to say, it is not lost. I will remember. We are all saved.

I let the wave or mourners flow through and over me, their kind and well-meant words drops in a tumultuous ocean of grief.

The crumbling under the ‘cold corpse’The deadness of ‘mortal separation’The moaning wails of ‘mourning’The push to ‘perform rituals’The spectacle of ‘sorrow’The goriness of ‘grief’AndThe ‘mercilessness’ of the ‘merciful’Who knows … ‘what’ and ‘why’ Who would ever want to know(Page 34)

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

When they need to mourn longer, collect nests and sew one big enough for them to weep in.

Shutter all the windows, bar the door - Pain is what a house is for.Close your eyes when other eyes beseech, turn away from arms that reach.There is no commitment without cost - nothing is loved but can be lost.Better not to meet than have to part - there is no armor for the heart.But always light seeps in through cracks, and dust. No house is built that you can trust,So you may wake one day to find you care a little too much for a chair.

I feel like I could dive right into your arms.I like you.I feel you.I fell right into your arms.I live in you.I feel I could right you.I lie to you.I fell cold in your arms.I feel like I could die in your arms.I could die yours.

For what is grief but love in disguise?

In my kind world the dead were out of rangeAnd I could not forgive the sad or strangeIn beast or man.