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You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Death is an art, you know.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.