“The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 122 of 132
“...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.”
“Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.”
“I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.”
“Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.”
“Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.”
“Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.”
“Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.”
“It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.e., in Europe, during World War II].”
“The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the time they bombed Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, and I felt there something like a foretaste of the end of the world.”
“Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.”
“Every life holds that which only a miracle can cure.”
“When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.”
“It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget.”
“I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.”
“I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.”
“In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.”
“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”
“The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.”
“I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.”