“In every parting there is an image of death.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 52 of 132
“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
“These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!”
“Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.”
“Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.”
“There is no armor against fate.”
“You have to get away from them. You have to get as far away as you can otherwise they'll kill you with their lives. They don't know what they do. They are careless with themselves and they take too much for granted. They make their shortcomings your problem. The only way to keep your head above it and heal your wounds is to crawl away.”
“If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts”
“We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.”
“Only where there are graves are there resurrections.”
“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
“Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.”
“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”
“The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.”
“Studies of people who report high well-being in their fifties and sixties indicate that they have lived lives that involved personal risks. They are not people whose lives have been calm and predictable. A life under tight control sometimes produces quiet desperation. High well-being is a life that has depth and quality. Risks, losses, problems, and tragedy add pain to a life. That pain becomes a teacher. We learn; the pain gives us no choice.”
“When power corrupts, poetry cleanses”
“I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)”
“Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in life—the fact that we carry what may seem to be unsightly scars—does not disqualify us from following Jesus. It may be precisely what qualifies us.”
“An affirmation to say everyday: The healing power of God is working in me right now. Eveyr day I get better and better in every way.”
“(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.”