Top 1200 Grief And Mourning Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain...Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

Ring out your bells! Let mourning show be spread! For Love is dead.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

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

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

My future is about the joy of loving those around me, of being with the people who are still here and not just mourning my loss.

Coming off the bench behind a fine young center like Alonzo Mourning fits my style.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.

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

The last TV show I really indulged in was 'Breaking Bad,' and I was in such a state of mourning when it ended. I've got to choose my next one carefully.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

My granny was always mourning about the fact I wear dull, stained jeans or don't brush my hair.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

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

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

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

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

Someone did us all a grave injustice by implying that mourning has a distinct beginning, middle, and end.

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack

Mourning the loss of the phone call is like pining for buggy driving or women in hats or three-martini lunches. They've gone.

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.

I know that 'Tangerine' is getting a lot of attention for pushing the iFilm, but I am really mourning the death of celluloid.

I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

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

I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process.

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.

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

I always encourage people who had a loss of any kind that you find something to focus on that takes you out of that horrific sorrow. And you have to go through it. No way out but through in the grief. But don't remain in the grief. You know, find something that you can nurture as you would that being that you loved.

Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

My biggest learning has been understanding that celebrating someone's life is more important than mourning the loss of one.