Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.
I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginning what couldn't happen. What couldn't happen didn't. But half our life is dreams, delirium, everything that underlies that feeds that keeps alive the illusion of sanity, semi- sanity, we allow others to see. Th...
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.
A wolf's mourning is the fox's feast.
What the wolf mourns is food for the fox.
I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.
The chickens don't mourn when the poulterer dies.
Don't take seriously the cat who mourns for a mouse.
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
Never dress in mourning before the dead man is in his coffin.
You must marry a widow while she is still mourning.
...Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.
I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.
And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.
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.
The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and ...
Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.
Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.
