Grieving Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

  May Sarton

  Healing, People, Remember

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• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Death, Journey, Thinking

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• Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.

  Charles Frohman

  Beautiful, Death, Adventure

  Quoted in Isaac F. Marcosson and Daniel Frohman, Charles Frohman: Manager and Man (1916)

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• There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

  O. Henry

  Grief, Differences, Giving

  O. Henry (2015). “The Trimmed Lamp”, p.139, Booklassic

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Rivers, Silence, Mountain

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

  Oriah Dreamer

  Pain, Betrayal, Sorrow

  "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.

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• Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

  John Green

  Change, Grief, Loss

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.162, Penguin

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• Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

  Patti Smith

  Grief, Hands, Suffering

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

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• One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Grief, Bereavement, Calm

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• When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Happiness, Communication, Giving

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• Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.

  Thomas Attig

  Grief, Heart, Loss

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• Since every death diminishes us a little,
  we grieve - not so much for the death
  as for ourselves.

  Lynn Caine

  Sad, Death, Littles

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”, William Morrow & Co

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• Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Good Night, God, Stars

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• We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

  Sigmund Freud

  Change, Grief, Loss

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• Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Boys, Littles

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.138, Egmont UK

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• When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

  John Irving

  Death, Grief, Loss

  John Irving (1989). “A prayer for Owen Meany: a novel”, William Morrow & Co

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Hurt, Grief

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, October 1, 1996.

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

  Brian Jacques

  Nature, Memories, Grief

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

  Earl A Grollman

  Grief, Survivor, Closure

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• Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to be tempted by the opposite vice. Therefore, look upon every temptation as an invitation to grow in a particular virtue and a promise by God that you will be successful, if only you stand fast.

  Philip Neri

  Successful, Opposites, Temptation

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