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  • Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

    "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.
  • We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.

    Grief   People   Mourning  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

    Grief   Heart   Sadness  
  • We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  • The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

    Sad   Death   Pain  
    Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press
  • Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1902). “Complete works”
  • The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.

    Change   Grief   Learning  
  • When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  • In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.

    Sad   Sympathy   Stars  
    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2414, Library of Alexandria
  • It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

    Love   Sad   Broken Heart  
  • She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

    Sad   Grief   Wrestling  
    George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.271
  • Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

    Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press
  • When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com
  • When you are sorrowful, look again.

    Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”
  • Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

    Love   Sympathy   Death  
    Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics
  • Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House
  • And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

    William Cullen Bryant, “The Death Of The Flowers”
  • What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

  • To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

    1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.
  • Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

    "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
  • We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of mourning will subside, we also know that we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.

    Change   Grief   Loss  
  • Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.

    Grief   Heart   Loss  
  • Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

    "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).
  • While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.24
  • Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.

    Hurt   Pain   Grieving  
  • Though lovers be lost love shall not.

    25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9
  • In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

  • Death ends a life, not a relationship.

    Life   True Love   Death  
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