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A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

— Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)

Mourning Birth Death

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Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd,
Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd.
Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise,
Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies:
O write it not, my hand—the name appears
Already written—wash it out, my tears!
In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays,
Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

— Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Grief Mourning Love Fatal

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Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who were taken by the police, or by drugs, or by illness or by other women. It makes no sense. Look at your skin, her mouth, these lips, those eyes, my God, listen to that laugh. The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, and even then, we have the moon.

— Warsan Shire, What We Have

Women of Color Poets poetic prose Mourning Grieving Injustice

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Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.

— Yoda (Frank Oz), Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (Theatrical Version)

Death Life Rejoicing The Force Mourning Attachment Jealousy Greed

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How would you like me to act? You want me to cry my eyes out? Bang my fists on the wall? She's gone. That's it. People leave. People die. It's the only sure thing there is in this world.

— Mike Montgomery (Cody Christian), Pretty Little Liars, Season 5: How the 'A' Stole Christmas

Death & Life Grieving How to Grieve The Only Thing That's Certain Mourning

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After someone dies, I think we want to tell ourselves a story of how it was our fault, because at least it gives us some control.

— Sarah Treem and Sharr White, The Affair, Season 3: Episode 10

Death Mourning Responsibility

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I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

— Abraham Lincoln, via www.abrahamlincolnonline.org

prayer Loss Mourning Bereavement Freedom

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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

— Joseph Stalin, via en.wikiquote.org

Sadness Mourning humanity

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How do you greet people at a funeral in Ireland? Top o' the mourning!"

— MechanicalKevlar, How do you greet people at a funeral in Ireland?

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I know
intense love always leads to mourning.

— Louise Glück, Triumph of Achilles

Intense Love Mourning

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Brad, Joe, Rob, Dave, and I love you all very much. Thank you so much for respecting our privacy during this extremely difficult time.

— Mike Shinoda, via twitter.com

Death Mourning Privacy Respect Love Friendship

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All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be.
It was the nature of things.
Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true.
At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.
We must try to see one another this way.
As suffering, limited beings --
Perennially outmatched by circumstance, inadequately endowed with compensatory graces.
His sympathy extended to all in this instant, blundering, in its strict logic, across all divides.
He was leaving here broken, awed, humbled, diminished.
Ready to believe anything of this world.
Made less rigidly himself through his loss.
Therefore quite powerful.
Reduced, ruined, remade.
Merciful, patient, dazzled.

— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

Grief Mourning Death Lincoln In The Bardo Stoicism

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His mind was freshly inclined towards sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that is his current state of sorry was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, and would yet be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone.

— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

Grief Mourning Death Lincoln In The Bardo Stoicism

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All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness.
(So why grieve?
The worst of it, for him, is over.)
Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.
Only there is nothing left to do.

— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

Grief Mourning Death Lincoln In The Bardo

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You mourn, you hurt and you start to heal.

— Rachel Hawthorne, A Year In Europe: Three Novels

Cheating Mourning Healing

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Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.

— C.J. Redwine, Deception (Defiance Trilogy)

Crying Death Mourning

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Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, after the storm, when the tears have run dry and my eyes choose to open, I will look for your rainbow of hope.

— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Crying Mourning Hope

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I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed)

Almost Relationships Mourning Loss

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I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.

— Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Life Death Grief Mourning Pain Moving On Letting Go Holding On

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You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

— Joan Didion, Blue Nights

Memories Pain Moving Forward Moving On Grief Mourning

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I don't know how to do this?...Live my life.

— Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop), Gilmore Girls : A Year in the Life, Season 1: Summer

Life Mourning Death Relationships

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I don't know what to do or where to go. I forgot which side of the bed to sleep on. I was married for 50 years, half of me is gone.

— Emily Gilmore (Kelly Bishop),

Mourning Death Relationships Marriage

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Your father was a great man, a pillar of the community, a man amongst men. And you dishonored him today like this in his own house.

— Emily Gilmore,

Mourning Death Relationships

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You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.

— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Pain Loss The future Mourning Moving On Re-framing The Future

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People leave, people die, that's the only sure thing in the world

— Mike, Pretty Little Liars

Mourning Loss Sadness

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It’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl On The Train

Missing Mourning possibilities

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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Loss Death Mourning

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You kill your future by mourning the past.

— R.H. Sin, Whiskey Words & a Shovel II

Future Past Mourning

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We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means

Future Mourning Misery present Unhappy

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Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up. That wasn’t in the Bible, but maybe it should’ve been.

— Joe Hill, Horns: A Novel

Bible Mourning Blessed God

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To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)

Death Quotes Mourning dead Killing

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Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

— Gayle Forman, Just One Day

Leaving Loss Relationships Ending Gone Mourning Death Quotes

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You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

— Stephen King, Lisey's Story: A Novel

Life Quotes Death Quotes Mourning Regret goodbye

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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

— Stephen King, Lisey's Story

Death Quotes Mourning Death Relationships After Life

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Lexie: [voiceover] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.
Mark: It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life. It’s loss. It’s change.
Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.

— Krista Vernoff, Grey's Anatomy, Season 4:

Loss Grief Death Mourning

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You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around -- beds, pillows, arms, laps.

— Patti Davis, Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats

Grief Mourning Death

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It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

— Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

Grief Mourning Death

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Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel

Death Mourning Time Healing

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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

Grief Mourning Time

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The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Loss Mourning unique

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When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

Missing Death Mourning

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The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

— Stephen King, More Good Words

Family Mourning Death

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Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

Family Friends Mourning

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If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you that the world keeps on turning.

They're right. It does.

However much you beg it to stop.

— Alan Moore, Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book 1

funeral Death Mourning

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I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart.

— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

Mourning Siblings Loss

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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, Captivate (Need)

Loss Mourning Death

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Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.

— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

Death Mourning Crying

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I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.

— Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead Collection: Rise of the Governor, The Road to Woodbury, The fall of the Governor, Part I, The Fall of the Governor, Part II, Just Another Day at the Office (The Walking Dead Series)

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Do not weep
but once, and a long

time then
Thereafter eat till

your stomach spills over
No more! you’ll cry

too full for your eyes
to leak

*

The words will wait

— Kevin Young, Dear Darkness: Poems

Kevin Young Mourning Death Grieving Loss Language

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You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

Death Grieving Mourning enjoy life

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This is how you fight back:

Take the salt from your tears
and amass a raging ocean from it.
Spindle your cries into its own axis
and unleash a sweeping hurricane.
Mourn, and mourn, and mourn,
for where we stand, gravity persists.
And those with the heaviest hearts
plant their feet into the earth the strongest.
You are a force of nature,
the salt of this earth,
and this earth bends for nobody.
So when they tell you to move,
what do you say?

— Nikka Ursula, YOU MOVE

Moving On Mourning Break Up Empowering strength

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From where, from whom, this mourning, or these tears of joy — I do not know; one must believe.

— Jacques Derrida, Memoirs of the Blind

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