“I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 44 of 132
“There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.”
“We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.”
“Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.”
“Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.”
“If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”
“The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. It can never be fooled into believing that there is one speck out of order.”
“Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.”
“Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”
“Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.”
“I'm in mourning for my life.”
“I am dying. I haven't drunk champagne for a long time.”
“There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.”
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.”
“The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.”
“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”
“O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time.”
“Grief makes one hour ten.”
“Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?”