Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher, Theologian
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
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Barack Obama
Politician
"Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Tears are the silent language of grief."
Anne Grant
Poet
"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Sorrow makes us all children again."
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"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."
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"When you are sorrowful, look again."
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"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."
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"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
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"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."
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"Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."
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"Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains."
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"Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn."
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"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."
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"Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy."
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"Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart."
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"We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."
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"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."
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"Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
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"He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."
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"History-writing is not a visit of condolence."
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"A man is not completely born until he is dead."
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"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."
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"For grief is crowned with consolation."
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"Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world"
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