“I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 78 of 132
“The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.”
“Time cleanses what it touches over time.”
“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”
“The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.”
“The elimination of toxins awakens the capacity for renewal.”
“Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.”
“If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
“I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.”
“For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.”
“Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.”
“Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.”
“In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done.”
“Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.”
“Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.”
“it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.”
“You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.”
“Music is the only thing that doesn't hurt when it hits you.”
“Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.”
“I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.”