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“Elle n'aimait pas parler d'elle, encore moins qu'on en dise du bien. Je vais en profiter, maintenant qu'elle est partie.”

Book:Veuf (La Bleue)

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“That was the first time I experienced the desperate orgiastic pleasure of this form of public mourning: it was the one place where people mingled and touched bodies and shared emotions without restraint or guilt. There was a wild, sexually flavored frenzy in the air. Later, when I saw a slogan by Khomeini saying that the Islamic Republic survives through its mourning ceremonies, I could testify to its truth.”

Mourning Iran Ceremony

Book:Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“The forty days of the soul begin on the morning after death.”

Grief Mourning 40 Days

Book:The Tiger's Wife

Source: The Tiger's Wife

“I’ve come to understand that there’s a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It’s hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.”

Death Mourning

Book:Ordinary Grace

Source: Ordinary Grace

“Why? Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by suicide? Only because the living must bury the dead? Because of the measured rites that must be fulfilled after a death? Because it is as though the one who is left steps for a time upon a stage and each second swells to an unlimited amount of time and he id watched by many eyes? Because there is a function he must carry out? Or perhaps, when there is love, the widowed must stay for the resurrection of the beloved - so that the one who has gone is not really dead, but grows and is created for a second time in the soul of the living? Why?”

Death Loss Grief Mourning

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.”

Happiness Morality Resources Creat Manking

Book:Perfect State

Source: Perfect State

“Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.”

Grief Depression Storytelling Mourning Cinderella Steampunk Mechanica Line Breaks

Book:Mechanica

Source: Mechanica

“Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.”

Death Grief Survival Mourning Pretending Coping

Book:Levels of Life

Source: Levels of Life

“Why do you always wear black?” She delighted me with her answer, the correct, the only, answer. “I’m in mourning for my life. I’m unhappy.”

Black Mourning

Book:No Night is Too Long

Source: No Night is Too Long

“Mourning is essential to uncoupling, as it is to any significant leavetaking. Uncoupling is a transition into a different lifestyle, a change of life course which, whether we recognize and admit it in the early phases or not, is going to be made without the other person. We commit ourselves to relationships expecting them to last, however. In leaving behind a significant person who shares a portion of our life, we experience a loss.”

Relationships Loss Mourning Transition Uncoupling

Book:Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships

Source: Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships

“Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?”

Pain Loss Mourning

Author:Alice Sebold

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