Our Healing Hands
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
In Memory:
Quotes on the Subject of Grief
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~From a headstone in Ireland
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. ~Kahlil Gibran
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. ~Colette
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. ~Bede Jarrett
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. ~Samuel Johnson
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. ~E.M. CioranGrief is a species of idleness. ~Samuel Johnson
Grief is itself a medicine. ~William Cowper, Charity
In my Lucia's absence
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden;
I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear,
And grief, and rage and love rise up at once,
And with variety of pain distract me.
~Joseph Addison
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
Time is a physician that heals every grief. ~Diphilus
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. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~Author Unknown
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~Author Unknown
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley
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. ~George Eliot
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
~Sascha, posted on motivateus.com
Quotes on the Subject of Grief
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
~From a headstone in Ireland
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. ~Kahlil Gibran
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. ~Colette
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. ~Bede Jarrett
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. ~Samuel Johnson
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. ~E.M. CioranGrief is a species of idleness. ~Samuel Johnson
Grief is itself a medicine. ~William Cowper, Charity
In my Lucia's absence
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden;
I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear,
And grief, and rage and love rise up at once,
And with variety of pain distract me.
~Joseph Addison
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill
Time is a physician that heals every grief. ~Diphilus
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. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. ~Dan Rather
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~Jan Glidewell
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~Author Unknown
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~Author Unknown
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. ~Moliere
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prévert
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley
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. ~George Eliot
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor
As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
~Sascha, posted on motivateus.com
In Memory of my grandmother, Gertrude Lorena Tyler.
August 4th, 1919-December 11th, 2006
You will be missed always.
August 4th, 1919-December 11th, 2006
You will be missed always.
