“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 16 of 132
“It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.”
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
“There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.”
“The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.”
“Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.”
“Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.”
“A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.”
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.”
“We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.”
“American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.”
“Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.”
“I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.”
“What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.”
“I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!”
“Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man.”
“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.”
“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”
“There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.”