“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 116 of 132
“I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.”
“To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.”
“At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.”
“At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.”
“When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349”
“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207”
“And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”
“First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.”
“A thousand ills require a thousand cures.”
“The battle is over when the foe has fallen.”
“Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.”
“Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.”
“With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.”
“Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]”
“A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.”
“Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.”
“She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.”
“Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.”
“I have seen several deaths, too many deaths in my life, and they were all different. Each one was different. It didn't seem to be necessarily connected with the life of the person. Some people that were not particularly developed or outstanding or spiritual died very easily. Some other people were on a very high level and had a difficult time in dying.”