“We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 119 of 132
“Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.”
“A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.”
“He who suffers, remembers.”
“Work makes a callus against grief.”
“Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.”
“I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]”
“My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.”
“If I should fall asleep and death takes me away, Don't be surprised son, I wasn't put here to stay.”
“La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.”
“Change, if it is to be long lasting, must occur on the unseen levels first”
“You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.”
“No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors.”
“It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.”
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.”
“It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.”
“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”
“Music is, I think, the best way to... not forget, but to just escape for a moment.”
“Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.”
“The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.”