“Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself around you and lodging itself in your heart.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 74 of 132
“Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.”
“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
“I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.”
“Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.”
“When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.”
“There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.”
“Once you're dead, you're made for life.”
“Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.”
“The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.”
“Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”
“I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.”
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”
“This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.”
“Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.”
“...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.”
“We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.”
“Have God make a message out of your mess.”
“The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.”
“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”