Quotes and Sayings About Mourning

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
-- Alan Bennett

#War #People #Mourning

An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself
-- Alejandra Pizarnik

#Dwelling #Space #Mourning

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.
-- Alice Miller

#Mourning #Narcissistic #Heal

Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.
-- Ann Brashares

#Beautiful #Mourning #Joy

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.
-- Anthony Kennedy

#Grief #Mourning #Stakes

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Mourning #Black #Said

I'm in mourning for my life.
-- Anton Chekhov

#Mourning

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Children #Mourning #Dresses

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.
-- Aurora Levins Morales

#Taken #Mourning #Faces

Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
-- Barbara De Angelis

#Dream #Regret #Mourning

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.
-- Brendan Gill

#Death #Mourning #Ends

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
-- Camilla Belle

#Thinking #Hair #Mourning

Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
-- Caroline Stevermer

#Hands #Voice #Mourning

I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
-- Carolyn Parkhurst

#Grief #Sleep #Mourning

Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.
-- Carrie Jones

#Loss #People #Mourning

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Mourning #Mindfulness #Today

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.
-- Christian McEwen

#Grief #Mourning #Pace

Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.
-- David Attenborough

#Animal #Thinking #Mourning

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
-- David Elkind

#Mourning #Childhood #Lost

good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?
-- Edmund Spenser

#Art #Mourning #Broke

Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
-- Edmund Spenser

#Mourning #Absence #Mates

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.
-- Edward Everett

#Mourning #Sorrow #Tears

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves
-- Edward Hirsch

#Dark #Mourning #Labor

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have...
-- Edwin S. Shneidman

#Profound #Mourning #Human Experience

... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
-- Elizabeth Hoyt

#Regret #Afterlife #Mourning

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
-- Eric Bana

#Character #Mourning #Periods

Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. But that's unacceptable. As others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn't 'too soon.' It's much too late.
-- Ezra Klein

#Gun #Talking #Mourning

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.
-- Fay Weldon

#Hair #Mourning #Suffering

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
-- Frederick William Robertson

#Strong #Mourning #Evidence

If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering,
-- Geoffrey Gorer

#Mourning #Suffering #Results