“Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 130 of 132
“I just hugged the man that murdered my son.”
“Un-forgiveness is like cancer; it eats you from the inside out.”
“And it is exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories of that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old-or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and to keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.”
“He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
“Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.”
“He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.”
“He was better than any drug, any remedy for her illness.”
“It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.”
“I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.”
“Death does frame a person and somehow it is the good that stays.”
“Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.”
“I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.”
“Oh, the holiness of being the injured party.”
“To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.”
“Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.”
“People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord.”
“Death pays all debts.”
“God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.”
“It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a tremendous loss. And we all have to rally around that piece of it.”