612 Quotes About Mourning

Inside she would be a vessel of fluids and mourning.

The true act of mourning is not to suffer from the loss of the loved object; it is to discern one day, on the skin of the relationship, a certain tiny stain, appearing there as the symptom of a certain death : for the first time I am doing harm to the one I love, involuntarily, of course, but without panic.

Je refuse de me lever et d'affronter cette journée. Parce que cela voudra dire que ma meilleure amie est définitivement partie. Et je ne veux pas lui dire au revoir. Pas dans une église gelée, remplie de gens en pleurs.Je ne veux pas que chaque vendredi soit à jamais marqué par l'image d'un cercueil fermé. C'est au-dessus de mes forces.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;For nothing now can ever come to any good.

You know, I still can't get my head around what happened to Ana. She was there last week. She lent me a pen in English class. How can someone go from lending a pen to being dead?

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,You could not bear his death thus patiently.

The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.

It is said that Time soothes mourning – No, Time makes nothing happen; it merely makes the emotivity of mourning pass.

How do you mourn endless numbers of people in endless numbers of places? Is there a form for it, a requisite time and place for mourning? Is there ever an end to it? Can there ever be an end to it?