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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Khalil Gibran

Death, Grieving, Bereavement

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Dylan Thomas

Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

Grief, Heart, Sadness

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A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Rossiter W. Raymond

Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

Solomon

Bible, Dance, Biblical

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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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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare

Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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When you are sorrowful, look again.

Khalil Gibran

Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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Sorrow makes us all children again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children, Grief, Condolences

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Washington Irving

Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

Earl A Grollman

Love, Inspirational, Death

Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Butterfly, Grieving

"'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

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If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Moliere

Courage, Grief, Grieving

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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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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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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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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Love, Sympathy, Death

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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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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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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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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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Coco Chanel

Death, Christian, Grief

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Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

Life, Dog, Sorry

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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

Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24

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Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

Arthur Golden

Grief, Grieving, One Day

Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House

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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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