Erin Morgenstern Quotes

If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

I was a pallbearer. I felt, when I got the call that Peter had died, I didn't have any bank account, but I felt I needed to start walking then because there was no way in the world I would miss Peter Norman's service.

Funerals...are for the living.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.

Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.