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Quotes tagged “Mourning”

“You have to dig through the soil and hit the gravel layers and then blast through the granite. None of these things are related to your child at all.”
— Heather Havrilesky, 'My Kid Is Nonbinary, and I Can’t Get Over It’
Tagged: Nonbinary, Gender Identity, Mourning, Loss, Parenting
“When someone dies, we tend to cling to their belongings. Our hands linger on the hairbrush they used, we drive the car that was once theirs, smell their scent on the clothing they left behind. Personal items have sentimental value.”
— Ymani Wince, Mourning My Mother Helped Me Find Myself
Tagged: Mourning, Death, Sentimental
“this is where i come from.
everyone i love still lives there.”
— Brenna Twohy, A Coworker Asks Me If I Am Sad, Still
Tagged: Poetry, Depression, Mourning, Healing, poem, Grief, Loss
“It's okay to hate Prue, Piper. When my parents died, I hated them. Piper, it's okay to be mad at Prue. She left you all alone.”
— Paige Matthews, Charmed, Season 4: Hell Hath No Fury
Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Death, Losing A Loved One, angry
“We barely got through the funeral and then everything started to go crazy and we haven't had a chance to mourn yet. And that's just not right.”
— Piper Halliwell, Charmed, Season 4: Charmed Again
Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Losing A Sibling
“A death mask. Is there a reason for a death mask? It is barely a physical resemblance — in death, the muscles so relaxed, the face so without the animating spark. A death mask is almost an intrusion on a beautiful memory. And yet, who could throw away the casting of a loved one? Who would not want to study it longingly, as the distant freight train blows its mournful tone?”
— Log Lady, Twin Peaks, Season 2: Slaves and Masters
Tagged: Death Mask, Loved Ones, Mourning
“I have been her daughter for 42 years. Now don't you think she could have taken some of that time to work on accepting me for who I am, rather than mourning every fucking thing that I am not?”
— Carrie 'Big Boo' Black, Orange Is the New Black, Season 3: Finger in the Dyke
Tagged: Acceptance, Mourning, Mothers And Daughters
“Carl Grimes: It's a strong knot. Clove hitch. Shane taught me. Remember him?


Rick Grimes: Yeah, I remember him. I remember him every day.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 4: After
Tagged: Mourning, Death Of A Friend, Remembering
“Daryl Dixon: You know, my mom, she liked her wine. She liked to smoke in bed. Virginia Slims. I was playing out with the kids in the neighborhood. I could do that with Merle gone. They had bikes, I didn't. We heard sirens getting louder. They jumped on their bikes, ran after it, you know, hoping to see something worth seeing. I ran after them, but I couldn't keep up. I ran around a corner and saw my friends looking at me. Hell, I saw everybody looking at me. Fire trucks everywhere. People from the neighborhood. It was my house they were there for. It was my mom in bed burnt down to nothing. That was the hard part. You know, she was just gone. Erased. Nothing left of her. People said it was better that way. I don't know. Just made it seem like it wasn't real, you know?

Carl Grimes: I shot my mom. She was out. Hadn't turned yet. I ended it. It was real. I'm sorry about your mom.


Daryl Dixon: I'm sorry about yours.”
— Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead, Season 3: Hounded
Tagged: mothers, Dead Moms, Death, Mourning
“In the end, he was talking about losing our humanity. He said this group was broken. The best way to honor him is to unbreak it. Set aside our differences and pull together, stop feeling sorry for ourselves and take control of our lives. Our safety our future. We're not broken. We're gonna prove him wrong. From now on We're gonna do it his way. That is how we honor Dale.”
— Rick Grimes, The Walking Dead, Season 2: Better Angels
Tagged: Death, Honor, Mourning, humanity
“Everyone either avoids me or they treat me like I'm crazy. I lost my daughter. I didn't lose my mind!”
— Carol Peletier, The Walking Dead, Season 2: Judge, Jury, Executioner
Tagged: Mourning, Losing Someone, Daughter and Mother, Losing Your Mind, crazy
“All I wanted after my sister died was to get out of this endless horrific nightmare we live every day. I wasn't hurting anyone else. You took my choice away, Dale. And you expect gratitude? I don't know what to say. I'm not your little girl. I'm not your wife. And I am sure as hell not your problem.”
— Andrea Harrison, The Walking Dead, Season 2: What Lies Ahead
Tagged: Suicide, Death, Mourning, Choices
“Sad isn’t even the half of it.”
— Lisa Lucas
Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Misery, Pain, Sad, Depression, despondency
“And people weren’t lying - you really don’t know what grief is until you know what grief is. I sure didn’t. And the bigger the love, the larger it seems to loom. I’m glad the love was world-filling, but my God, what loss.”
— Lisa Lucas
Tagged: Grief, Loss, loss of a loved one, Loss Of Someone, Pain, pain in passing, Mourning
“I’ve never really known grief before, and this is a wild, unpleasant, and oddly tender ride. Loss is a beast, but it reminds you how strong we all are. And how much the love of others will keep you.”
— Lisa Lucas
Tagged: Pain, Grief, Mourn, Mourning, Moving Forward, Living in pain, living in spite of pain, Life, Loss Of Someone
“I hope that being open about mourning my father helps someone else one day. We all share this pain at some point, and even if it gives just one single other person in the universe to be openly bereft, if it gives them comfort: worthwhile.”
— Lisa Lucas
Tagged: Mourning, Grief, pain of losing someone, pain in loss, Pain, sharing pain, Life
“I also think many of you are quick to say strange things when a professionally successful person says they are having a hard time. There is lots of “but you’re doing so well” as if you have any idea what someone is dealing with.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Loss, Grief, Mourning, Suicide Prevention, Suicide Awareness, How You Treat People, Professional Success, The Pain Unsaid
“Mourn the dead, yes, but think about how you treat the living.”
— Roxane Gay
Tagged: Loss, Grief, Mourning, Suicide Prevention, Suicide Awareness, How You Treat People
“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”
— Baron de Montesquieu, Persian Letters(Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Mourning, Birth, Death
“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
Tagged: Grief, Mourning, Love, Fatal

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