“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
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Grieving Quotes — page 95 of 132
“Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.”
“I myself have suffered periodically from hearing voices at night when I'm trying to sleep.”
“The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong; we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.”
“The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.”
“When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself.”
“Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.”
“Medicines cure diseases, but only doctors can cure patients.”
“I take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.”
“The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.”
“Probably a dozen times since their death I've heard my mother or father, in an ordinary conversational tone of voice, call my name. They had called my name often during my life with them ... It doesn't seem strange to me.”
“A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.”
“Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.”
“Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.”
“The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.”
“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.”
“Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.”
“Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best”
“Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him.”
“But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.”