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Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not; — Hans Christian Andersen

O weep for Adonis - He is dead."
"Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death. — Emily Bett Rickards

Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead. — Langston Hughes

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. — Roland Barthes

Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between. — Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him. — Dennis Lehane

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; — William Cullen Bryant

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? — Henrik Ibsen

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury? — Jodi Picoult

Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince. — Barack Obama

Do not waste your life mourning the dead. — Roshani Chokshi

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. — Robin Hobb

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. — Roland Barthes

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus

Mourning leads not to resurrection. — J. Rutger Madison

Mourning was really for the living. — Soroosh Shahrivar

Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves. — Rebecca McNutt

No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death. — M.L. Stedman

Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse. — Rebecca McNutt

Someone dies, there oughta be something. It oughta shake the world! You're not supposed to walk away! — Lisa Henry

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning? — Julian Barnes

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days. — Victoria Hanley

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. — Michael Bassey Johnson

How ironic that there always seemed to be more people welcoming your birth and mourning your death than there were throughout your life. — Laurie Bellesheim

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked.
"You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up. — John Scalzi

In the daylight we know
what's gone is gone,
but at night it's different.
Nothing gets finished,
not dying, not mourning; — Margaret Atwood

I have remembered Who wept for a parting between the living and the dead. — Charles Dickens

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

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones. — Lee Smith

When the Grim Reaper comes to call, words fail- they're just too small. — Dixie Lyle

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death. — Isaiah

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. — Pablo Neruda

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;
And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently. — Christopher Marlowe

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. — Matthew Prior

As the sun starts to rise, I watch as Raffaele bends over Enzo's body, the two of us mourning the prince we both loved. — Marie Lu

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away. — Julian Barnes

Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns. — David Mitchell

Memory is all I have now — James Patterson

Those who do not care, escape the anguish of mourning but never know the delights of love. The meaning of life forever eludes them. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. — Joan Didion

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning. — Anna Quindlen

During the prayers of the day, there was one less "amen". — Phindiwe Nkosi

Mistake this day as being like any other, and your deaths will go as unmourned as the insects of the field. — A.J. Darkholme

Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted. — Marion Coutts

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny! — Israelmore Ayivor

Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing. — Brandon M. Herbert

Instead of hating, my heart cries mercy! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! Mercy on me! — Phindiwe Nkosi

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

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

There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. REVELATION 21:4 — Anne Graham Lotz

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

She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart. — Judith Ortiz Cofer