“What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 81 of 132
“If you take a diamond that's raw and you put one face to it, it has that one face, and then you've gotta find another face. At the end, you're going to have this diamond that's everything you've done. I feel that's the way you should look at it because that puts you in a constant state of progress.”
“I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.”
“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”
“I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less.”
“Listening can heal wounds.”
“We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
“..my music isn't just music- its medicine.”
“Killing rips the soul apart.”
“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
“I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.”
“Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
“Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind.”
“And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.”
“I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.”
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.”
“He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.”
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried.”
“All things that are born must die. Work hard for your own freedom from sorrow.”