612 Quotes About Mourning

The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.

I’ve come to understand that there’s a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It’s hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.

What is this sleep which holds you now?You are lost in the dark and cannot hear me.

In the support group, the counselor had said: When you lose a loved one, you feel as if you're inside a confined space. Everyone else will seem to be careening along outside of this space. In time, you will become aware of an opening you are going to have to step through. It might be the touch of a new lover, a new job, a move--but you'll know. You will step through.

Mourning is essential to uncoupling, as it is to any significant leavetaking. Uncoupling is a transition into a different lifestyle, a change of life course which, whether we recognize and admit it in the early phases or not, is going to be made without the other person. We commit ourselves to relationships expecting them to last, however. In leaving behind a significant person who shares a portion of our life, we experience a loss.

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

O zła Persefono,Mogłażeś tak wielu łzam dać upłynać płono?