“Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 121 of 132
“Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.”
“A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.”
“An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.”
“Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.”
“Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.”
“I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.”
“He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you.”
“I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.”
“When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.”
“Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".”
“There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.”
“Forgiveness indeed heals memories”
“Any dance of celebration must weave both the sorrows and the blessings into a joyful step....To heal is to let the Holy Spirit call me to dance, to believe again, even amid my pain, that God will orchestrate and guide my life.”
“Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.”
“I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”
“All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.”
“There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.”
“The maester smiled...Hush now, child, I'm much older than you. I can....die as I please.”
“Perhaps I will die too, she told herself, and the thought did not seem so terrible to her. If she flung herself from the window, she could put an end to her suffering, and in the years to come the singers would write songs of her grief. Her body would lie on the stones below, broken and innocent, shaming all those who had betrayed her. Sansa went so far as to cross the bedchamber and throw open the shutters ... but then her courage left her, and she ran back to her bed, sobbing.”