“God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 47 of 132
“Great souls suffer in silence.”
“I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.”
“It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.”
“They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
“Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.”
“God transforms us one area at a time.”
“In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with earth ten meteres thick. There lie many fighting men. Dead in their youthful prime.”
“Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.”
“Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation”
“What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?”
“My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried, he was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there, when I needed him the most. His love was never ending. And now that he's gone there is an emptiness in my world, but not in my heart.”
“I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
“Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.”
“Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more.”
“From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”
“When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.”
“During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.”
“All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.”