“She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 87 of 132
“If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.”
“The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.”
“[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.”
“These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.”
“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
“Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.”
“Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage.”
“I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.”
“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
“The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.”
“Everybody has lost somebody that they care about, or hopefully you havent, but thats part of life.”
“Self-denial is the best riches.”
“The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.”
“Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.”
“The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the same time he is the only man who has not deserved the punishment. But, after all, for him it is no punishment; it is God holding his hand and pressing rather hard. For, if he remains constant, what he will discover buried deep under the sound of his own lamentations is the pearl of the silence of God.”
“After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.”
“This crime against humanity must never be forgotten.”
“You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.”
“When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.”