Death And Mourning Quotes

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Thornton Wilder

Death, Gratitude, Grief

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Sad, Sympathy, Stars

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria

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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.

Khalil Gibran

Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

Love, Inspiring, Dog

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Sympathy, Death, Memories

Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Erich Fromm

Grief, Grieving, Mourning

Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.195, Open Road Media

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

William Penn

Sympathy, Death, Memorial Day

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sympathy, Death, Grief

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The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

Khalil Gibran

Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Thomas Moore

Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Change, Grief, Learning

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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel

Death, Christian, Grief

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Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Jack Lemmon

Life, True Love, Death

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Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye

Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

"Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Sympathy, Death, Condolences

Benjamin Franklin (1838). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.113

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Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Rita Schiano

Sympathy, Grief, Healing

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It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

Benjamin Franklin

Sympathy, Children, Real

Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

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