612 Quotes About Mourning

When someone is grieving, you don’t have to say anything. Just be present. Be nonjudgmental. Let them cry, scream, or sit in silence. You don't have to fix them.

Who knows the minute in the moment of last breath?

I shall look at the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see.

Each death frames previous deaths in a different light, and even deaths to come. During the time my mother was sick, I found myself crying uncontrollably over the deaths of people I barely knew.

Often, in death, everything else fails. We are left only with the music and the meaning of poetry.

We may try to run away from grief and escape its terrible clutches. Perhaps we immerse ourselves in work or other activities. We busy ourselves and refuse to look back over our shoulder. Grief will follow us. It will hide around the corner so in that moment when our activity lulls, grief will pounce. Grief will never leave until it is defeated.

Death brings with it a duty and devotion that cannot be explained to those who don't know it.

It was brutal, the mortality contract. It came for everyone and no one was prepared.

She did not know how to grieve in the context of her life.