Family In Mourning Quotes

#1. Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'

Letitia Baldrige

#2. It wasn't every day that I got to see him, but when I did I knew I was on the right path and that life, while still shifting, was always improving for the
better.

Jonathan Kuiper

#3. Your heart is where your inner light resides. It is part of every sacred journey to reconnect with your inner light, step into your divinity, spread the light of love before you, return to the essence of love, and inspire others to do the same.

Molly Friedenfeld

#4. When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

Richard Carlson

#5. She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.

Dennis Lehane

#6. He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now.

Luke Taylor

#7. You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Euvin Naidoo

#8. He was seven years old the summer that his life ended. He'd always felt like his life was taken the moment that truck rammed into his father and sister. Or at least, the life he would have had was ended before it even began.

Melodie Ramone

#9. I don't hate you. I could never hate you. Give me your heart, Kacey. I'll take everything that comes with it.

K.A. Tucker

#10. The colors on the river faded, the rain began, and the river began to rise. It was apparent that the sun would soon give up the tremendous struggle it cost her to get to Paris for a few hours every day.

James Baldwin

#11. It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

John Le Carre

#12. Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik H. Erikson

#13. The free expression of resentment against one's parents represents a great opportunity. It provides access to one's true self, reactivates numbed feelings, opens the way for mourning and - with luck - reconciliation.

Alice Miller

#14. We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

Eric Morecambe

#15. In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

Charlotte Gray

#16. I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#17. I want to go home,' he muttered as he totered down the road beside me.
'Me, too,' I told him. And yet it was not Buckkeep that came to my mind, but a meadow overlooking the sea, and a girl in bright red skirts who beckoned me. A time, rather than a place. No road led there anymore.

Robin Hobb

#18. ...there's seldom one event that makes a person a certain way, it's the numerous bumps and bruises and stories of personal triumph in a life that makes us these beautifully scared creatures.

L.M. Adams

#19. I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.

Abigail Hilton

#20. I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.

Ryan Adams

#21. She could just imagine, all her friends and family mourning around her grave. The tombstone would read Kari Wagner, Died of Sheer Stupidity.
It would be almost as bad to have her grave marker read Died of Terminal Bedroom Boredom.

Cherise Sinclair

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

Stephen King

#23. There ain't nothing worse than getting fired by somebody you hate, because it means they

Sarah Monette

#24. Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

Yann Martel

#25. Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

Anthony Kennedy

#26. I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

Alonzo Mourning

#27. ... part of the grief was that each member of the family was mourning his own mortality.

Alan Lightman

#28. When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

Lynn Schusterman