Those Grieving Quotes

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Sympathy, Death, Pain

Alphonse de Lamartine (1849). “Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty”, p.29

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief, Healing, Grieving

C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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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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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Friendship, True Friend, Grief

"Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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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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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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Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Jim Butcher

Bible, Shadow Of Death, Death Of A Loved One

Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin

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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

Motivational, Happy, Death

Codice Trivulziano 281

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization". Book by Jim Clemmer (p. 84), 2003.

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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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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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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne

Teamwork, Men, Grieving

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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Death cannot kill what never dies.

William Penn

Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

Life, Sympathy, Grief

"Happy birthday, Queen Elizabeth. The world needs you now more than ever" by Lee Cohen, www.foxnews.com. April 21, 2016.

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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 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.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Change, Grief, Learning

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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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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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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Life, Motivational, Friendship

"Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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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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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

Love, Sympathy, Death

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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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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