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Grief
Quotes
Death leaves
a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a
memory no one can steal.
~From a
headstone in Ireland~
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When you are
sorrowful look again in your heart,
and you shall
see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~Kahlil Gibran~
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It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest
hours of grief.
But then
someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window,
or one
notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly
blossomed,
or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
~Colette~
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Sorrow you
can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you.
If they
speak, you break down.
~Bede Jarrett~
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While grief
is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.
You must wait
till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
~Samuel
Johnson~
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Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
whispers the
o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
~William
Shakespeare~
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Man, when he
does not grieve, hardly exists.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin~
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Even
hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
~Jareb Teague~
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Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect.
The wisest
know nothing.
~Ralph
Waldo Emerson~
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No one can
keep his griefs in their prime;
they use
themselves up.
~E.M. Cioran~
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Grief is a
species of idleness.
~Samuel
Johnson~
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Grief is
itself a medicine.
~William
Cowper, Charity~
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In my Lucia's
absence
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden;
I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear,
And grief, and rage and love rise up at once,
And with variety of pain distract me.
~Joseph
Addison~
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We must
embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
~Kenji
Miyazawa~
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Memory is a
way of holding onto the things you love,
the things
you are, the things you never want to lose.
~From
the television show The Wonder Years~
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If you're
going through hell, keep going.
~Winston
Churchill~
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We acquire
the strength we have overcome.
~Ralph
Waldo Emerson~
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Time is a
physician that heals every grief.
~Diphilus~
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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul
arises from
the feeling that there is in every individual something which is
inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and
irretrievably lost.
~Arthur
Schopenhauer~
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There's a bit
of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~Lou Reed,
"Magic and Loss"~
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Courage is
being afraid but going on anyhow.
~Dan Rather~
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You can
clutch the past so tightly to your chest
that it
leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
~Jan
Glidewell~
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Earth has no
sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~Author
Unknown~
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Grief punts around joy.
~Jareb
Teague~
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There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept,
things we
don't want to know but have to learn,
and people we
can't live without but have to let go.
~Author
Unknown~
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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
~Moliere~
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Loss is
nothing else but change,
and change is
Nature's delight.
~Marcus
Aurelius, Meditations~
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In the night
of death, hope sees a star,
and listening
love can hear the rustle of a wing.
~Robert
Ingersoll~
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Even if
happiness forgets you a little bit,
never
completely forget about it.
~Jacques
Prιvert~
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The sorrow
which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~Henry
Maudsley~
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Every evening
I turn my worries over to God.
He's going to
be up all night anyway.
~Mary
C. Crowley~
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She was no
longer wrestling with the grief,
but could sit
down with it as a lasting companion
and make it
a sharer in her thoughts.
~George
Eliot~
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While we are
mourning the loss of our friend,
others are
rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
~John
Taylor~
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As long as I
can I will look at this world for both of us.
As long as I
can I will laugh with the birds,
I will sing
with the flowers,
I will pray
to the stars, for both of us.
~Sascha, as posted on motivateus.com~
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