612 Quotes About Mourning

To whom can I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought... ?

...The heart mourns people and places and returns to them in dreams...

An explosion in space makes no sound at all.

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Even the most blatant assholes seemed to function in a state of grace when confronted with the brutal loss of a loved one. They moved through the world differently than other people. When they looked at you, you had the feeling that they were really seeing you. Their entire universe was just this one thing, this one event, this one loss. They seemed, for a few weeks, to have things in perspective. Then the inconsequential shit of their lives would start to seep back in.

She'd worn that color, or gray in its place, for three years now. And unrelenting black for a year before that. It had been a bit of a badge, she realized, a uniform of sorts. One never had to worry about who one was when one's clothing proclaimed it so loudly.

By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.