“An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 54 of 132
“I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.”
“I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.”
“Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.”
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.”
“A healer of others, himself diseased.”
“You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.”
“I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.”
“Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.”
“This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.”
“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”
“The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.”
“Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and we've stolen from them, just as they stole from Greek myth, which has that same mixture of pre-Christian chaos.”
“I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.”
“Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.”
“Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.”
“He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.”
“The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow...”
“The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.”
“In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.”