To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session. To prolong pain is to remain in a vacated classroom and miss the next lesson. —Yahia Lababidi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more you cut the branches of a tree, the higher and stronger it grows. The more you put the gold in the fire, the purer it becomes. The more you sharpen the steel by grinding, the better it cuts. . . . Therefore I am happy that you have had great tribulations and difficulties. . . . Strange it is that I love you and still I am happy that you have sorrows. —Abdu'l-Bahá More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nights of anguish. Inconsolable sisters, why did I not kneel more to greet you, lose myself more in your loosened hair? —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more loss we feel, the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is. —Frank O'Connor More about this quote Tags: gratitude grief loss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. —George Carlin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time, just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow! Well, goodnight. —Homer Simpson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The deaths of others carry us off bit by bit, until there will be nothing left; and this, too, will be, in a way, a mercy. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Part of getting over it is knowing you will never get over it. —Anne Finger More about this quote Tags: moving on healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. —P.D. James More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mold, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. —E.A. Bucchianeri More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I pulled a dirty black sweatshirt from the laundry basket on his floor and tried to drink in his scent, to savor the essence of my sweet boy. . . . I inhaled it long and hard, wanting to permanently implant all of him in my brain, to make him last forever. —Shelley Ramsey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For grief has darkened my eyes; my body is like a shadow. . . . My days fade like an echo; the strings of my heart have snapped. —The Book of Job More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Not that Mrs. Marston did not feel it [when her husband died]. She did, as deeply as her nature could. But she felt it as a well-padded boy feels a whacking, through layers of convention. —Mary Webb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. —Dean Inge More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email