“Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 107 of 132
“I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.”
“I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.”
“It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.”
“Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.”
“The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.”
“The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I’ve seen it.”
“It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go”
“The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.”
“It feels better there. In real life you can eventually learn to deal with the pain and trauma, learn to cope on some level, you know? But you can never undo death, and even if you think they deserve it, killing doesn’t take away your pain, just puts you on dangerous ground that can collapse out from beneath you at any time.”
“If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Xaaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.”
“The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.”
“To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.”
“Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.”
“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest”
“All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.”
“Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.”
“In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.”
“They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.”
“The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.”