"When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened."
Margaret Mead
5 FAMOUS QUOTES · MOURNING
Read 5 famous mourning quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened."
Margaret Mead
"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend."
Henry Taylor
"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."
Margery Allingham
"Grief is what we think and feel on the inside when someone we love dies. Mourning is the outward expression of those thoughts and feelings."
Alan Wolfelt
"Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed."
Confucius