612 Quotes About Mourning

There is no panacea for this kind of loss. Just know that every day it gets the tiniest bit better-- suddenly one day you can put it in a different perspective.

Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?

Let darkness keep her raven gloss:Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss

There is an intense desire to do the proper thing. This feels like their induction. Suddenly, here is life, cut right to its center. Here it is, dismantled to its bones.

Is the air okay?" I texted."It hurts a little to breathe," my sister texted back. "But we're okay."Jesus, I thought, is there a better and more succinct definition of grief than It hurts a little to breathe, but we're okay?

I limp along through my mourning.

Horrible figure of mourning: acedia, hard-heartedness: irritability, impotence to love. Anguished because I don't know how to restore generosity to my life--or love. How to love?

Grief did not quieten the world's demands, and I was thankful to be kept busy.

A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite 'naturally' within the solitude, functioning there, working there, accompanied by, 'fastened to' the "presence of absence.