“Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 46 of 132
“You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.”
“A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that.”
“I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.”
“You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?”
“She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.”
“Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away”
“Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
“Alas, I am dying beyond my means.”
“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”
“My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious”
“Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.”
“For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.”
“Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do.”
“Through countless births in the cycle of existence I have run, not finding although seeking the builder of this house; and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth. Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen. You shall not build a house again for me. All your beams are broken, the ridgepole is shattered. The mind has become freed from conditioning: the end of craving has been reached.”
“Wounds cannot be cured without searching.”
“A tomb is a monument placed on the limits of two worlds.”
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
“Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.”
“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”