#mourning

When all that's left of me is love, Give me away. ↗

— Merrit Malloy

#see-you-at-harry-s #love

To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all. ↗

— Tom Perrotta

#human-nature #mourning #nature

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#english #inadequacy-of-words #language #lose #loss

In Egypt: Under no conditions, under threat of death could anyone kill a cat. People were exceuted for even killing a cat accidentally. And when a cat died, the whole family, and probably their closest friends, went into mourning, the measure of their personal loss signalled by their shaving off their eyebrows. ↗

— Roger A. Caras

#death #egypt #mourning #death

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. [Matt 5:4] ↗

— Anonymous

#beatitudes #bible-quotes #bible-verse #mourning #scripture