“I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 29 of 132
“Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.”
“Death is a continuation of my life without me.”
“Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.”
“Walking is man's best medicine.”
“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.”
“To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.”
“Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.”
“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”
“And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”
“If all we ever sang about was how happy we are, we would be lying to ourselves. People try to escape their problems by getting drunk, partying and dancing them away. What really heals me is to sit down and think, face the facts, then you can get over it and be happy”
“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”
“Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of gardenias in the crystal vase on your yellow kitchen table. so fragrant. your voice lingers in my ear reminding, scolding, guiding a pleasant mantra of tenderness, magic words that move my palms, your palms. together we are molding, helping, creating. in the mirror I see your eyes, your beautiful brown circles looking back, so radiant. "don't forget me," you whispered the day you died. I won't.”
“Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.”
“Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.”
“There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.”
“when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.”
“Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die.”
“The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.”
“Fractures well cured make us more strong.”