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• I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

  Thomas Lynch

  People, Funeral, Retail

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.

  John Winthrop

  Inspirational, Eye, Community

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• All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Independence, Comedian

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Jul 25, 2012

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Men, Heaven

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• After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Tragedy, Sin, Committed

  1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

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• I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Hate, Funeral, Guy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Hurt, Pain, Grieving

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• Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

  Neil Gaiman

  Views, Ideas, Action

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• In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ego, World, Empty

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1957). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works”

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• People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.

  Lady Gaga

  People, Veils, Figures

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Mar 24, 2012

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• One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sleep, Kissing, Wind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

  Gloria Steinem

  Past, Imagination, Compelled

  Gloria Steinem (2013). “Marilyn: Norma Jeane”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Friendship, Dog, Children

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• To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

  Erich Fromm

  Grief, Grieving, Bereavement

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• Doctor MacKenzie says "Sometimes I think the Victorians had the right idea. When you lost a family member back then you were suppose to be in full mourning, dress in nothing but black, for a whole year. Then you went into something they called 'half mourning' for another full year, adn during those two years, you were pretty much expected to have emotional breakdowns, you could do it whenever you felt you needed to, and everybody would support you. Now?, A month after a tragedy, maybe two, and you're expected to be all better-or down pills so you can pretend you are.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Emotional, Thinking, Support You

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• I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

  Jandy Nelson

  Grief, Clothes, People

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.19, Penguin

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• Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Mindfulness, Today, Ruins

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, Macmillan

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• Says the girl dressed up in formal Goth mourning," Shane said. "Seriously, who buys a black lace veil? You keep that on hand for special occasions, like prom and kid's birthdays?

  Rachel Caine

  Girl, Kids, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.190, Penguin

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• So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful and colorful, to distract them from their pain? Or maybe you wear some sort of camouflage, something that will help you disappear quickly in case they don't take it well.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pain, Hair, Black

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.22, Penguin

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• No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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