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  • Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.

    Men   Grieving   Shade  
    William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.254
  • The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com
  • The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

    Loss   Grieving   Echoes  
  • Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

    "My 15 minutes with Russell Crowe". Interview with Emma Brocke, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.
  • My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

    Grief   Grieving   Ideas  
    C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber
  • How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

    Sorry   Good Day   Simple  
    Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.123, Penguin
  • My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

  • I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

  • Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

    Grief   Loss   Grieving  
    Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.384, Conari Press
  • I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

    "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.
  • As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

    Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.58, Ultramarine Publishing
  • I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.

  • Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

    Grief   Grieving   Sorrow  
  • I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

    Hurt   Jobs   Grieving  
  • Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

    Hurt   Pain   Healing  
  • So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

    Song: Different Drum
  • Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

  • They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

    Sympathy   Death   Grief  
    Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation
  • Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.

  • No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

    Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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.

    "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.
  • He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

    Grieving   Light   Jewels  
    Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books
  • At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

  • A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

    William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”
  • My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

    Grieving   Cold   Dear  
  • Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

    Luo Guanzhong (2016). “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, p.244, XinXii
  • I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.

    Mother   Grief   Grieving  
  • 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 (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  • Death is just a change in lifestyles.

    Life   Change   Death  
    Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.290, Anchor
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