“I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 35 of 132
“Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.”
“The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.”
“Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.”
“Grief never mended no broken bones.”
“I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier.”
“Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.”
“Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.”
“Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.”
“Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.”
“She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.”
“There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.”
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”
“He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.”
“I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.”
“The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.”
“As pain tells us of the need for healing, worry tells us of the need for prayer.”
“War would end if the dead could return.”