“Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!”
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Grieving Quotes — page 124 of 132
“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.”
“Gray hairs are death's blossoms.”
“When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.”
“Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.”
“Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.”
“A little health now and again is the ailing person's best remedy.”
“Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.”
“He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.”
“Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute truth; there are some fearful ones who have given themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely. For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death and annihilation. But they will not attain to death.”
“Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.”
“when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.”
“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!”
“When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.”
“I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.”
“I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.”
“If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.”
“Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies," Jenks whispered, empty and bereft. "My word silent, though I should howl. Muffled by death, my wings can't lift me high enough to find you. I feel you within. Unaware of my pain. Not knowing why I mourn. And why I breathe alone.”
“Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.”
“Time, time will heal the wound.”