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Mourning Quotes - Page 6

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.

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
Carrie Jones (2010). “Captivate”, p.40, A&C Black

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
Carolyn Parkhurst (2010). “The Nobodies Album”, p.52, Anchor

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

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
"Q&A with Camilla Belle & Rebecca Miller". Roundtable Interview, www.tailslate.net. March 25, 2005.

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
BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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
Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Andrew Jackson
Mourning, Feelings, Language

John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.

Alasdair MacLean
Voice, Forever, Mourning
Source: pitchfork.com

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