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Helen Keller: We Are Not Alone in Suffering Quote
Shakespeare: Expressing Grief Through Words Quote
William Faulkner - Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
Nikita Gill - You are gone, but thank you for all these soft, sweet things you have left behind in my home, in my head, in my heart.
J.R.R. Tolkein - I will not say: Do not weep; For not all tears are evil.
Denis Waitley - A good life is a collection of happy moments.
Terry Pratchett - Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?
Earl Grollman - Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a 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.
William Shakespeare - Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it break.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - I wish I had done everything on earth with you.
William Cowper - Grief is itself a medicine.
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing - Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
Earl Grollman: Embracing Grief as a Healing Journey Quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Unseen Sorrows Explored Quote
Helen Keller - We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world… the company of those who have known suffering.
George Eliot - She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
Shakespeare, Sonnet I - My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
Melanie M. Koulouris - Life is a beautiful collage of priceless moments and memories, which when pieced all together creates a unique treasured masterpiece.
George Henry Lewes - The only cure for grief is action.
Victoria Alexander - There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
Lyndon Baines Johnson - All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.
Renoir - The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
General George S. Patton - It is foolish to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Zakes Mda: Tears for Beauty, Not Pain Quote
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
Sarah Dessen - Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
Wendell Berry - Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
C.S. Lewis - Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
Marcel Proust - We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Arthur Schopenhauer - Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Emily Dickinson - That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Samuel Johnson - While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Ghandi - Here are no good-byes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.
Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost - Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!
Samuel Johnson on Grief: Time Heals, Amusement Aids Quote
Zakes Mda - Tears are very close to my eyes… Not for pain… no… I do not cry because of pain. I cry only because of beautiful things.
J.M. Barrie - God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Dr. Seuss - Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
A.A. Milne - How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Seneca - The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Pema Chodron - Healing comes from letting there be room for all of “this” to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
C.S. Lewis - Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer.
Thomas Moore - Earth has no sorrows that heaven can’t heal.
Ronald Reagan - Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories.
Helen Keller - What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.
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