“It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 25 of 132
“Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.”
“Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into a glory”
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”
“That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.”
“But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.”
“I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."”
“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”
“The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.”
“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.”
“Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.”
“You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.”
“They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.”
“My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.”
“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.”
“Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.”
“Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”
“My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.”
“Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.”