“The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 41 of 132
“The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.”
“I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.”
“Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.”
“Death needs time for what it kills to grow in.”
“Time is what death needs to grow people in.”
“My grammy never gave gifts, you know. She was too busy getting raped by Cossacks.”
“When I was younger I'd berate myself: You're fat, you're not a good dancer, you'll never have a boyfriend. I don't sweat that kind of stuff anymore. Now every day is a miracle. I've also learned that if something is painful or upsetting, you shouldn't hide from it. You should make it part of your life instead.”
“The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.”
“It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.”
“Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.”
“Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.”
“They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.”
“She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
“The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.”
“To live in the hearts of others is not to die”
“Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.”
“Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.”
“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
“The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.”