“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 w…”— Warsan Shire, poetryinternationalweb.net
“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.”— George Lucas, Yoda, Frank Oz, amazon.com
“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.”— I. Marlene King, Mike Montgomery, Cody Christian, imdb.com
“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, Sharr White, imdb.com
“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, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org
“How do you greet people at a funeral in Ireland? Top o' the mourning!"”— MechanicalKevlar, reddit.com
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“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, twitter.com
“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”— Anna Quindlen, amazon.com
“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 anothe…”— George Saunders, amazon.com
“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, neglecte…”— George Saunders, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, afte…”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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 lon…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com