#mourn

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

— Roland Barthes

#future #mourning #death

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. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#cause #compared #fans #hero #lost

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#lost-love #love #mourning #death

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them. ↗

— Ferdinand Marcos

#change #just #let us #many #mourn

I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#consider #countries #day #did #even

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

— Stephen King

#family #mourning #death

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory, Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#funeral #grief #love #mourning #poem

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it. ↗

— David Ruffin

#hands #mourn #our #out #should

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures. ↗

— David K. Shipler

#ages #cultures #delicate #festival #great

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. ↗

— a headstone in Ireland

#epitaph #mourning #death