"Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give." ~Rumi
"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude." ~Anne Frank
"Death and dying are only scary because of the compulsory solitude that attends the experience." ~Atty. Ahmed G. Paglinawan
“Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.” ~Anon
"Death can show us the way, for when we know and understand completely that our time on this earth is limited, and that we have no way of knowing when it will be over, then we must live each day as if it were the only one we had." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-)
"Death comes to us all but that does not mean that death means nothing." ~Mavis Pippin
"......., Death has always been the compass by which I have lived my life. I proceed with the knowledge that all these will end sooner than later ." ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, extracted from her article "Blush"
"Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and. the moon sets, but they're not gone. Death is a coming together." ~Rumi
"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Death is a frightful disaster no matter what the cause and the age of the person affected." ~Nelson Mandela from a letter to Irene Buthelezi, on receiving the news of his son Thembi's death, written on Robben Island, 3 August 1969
"Death is a hopeless adventure while life is an opportunity for you to become a blessing to your fellowmen." ~Rado Gatchalian, Letter to the Filipino Youth
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.” ~Bhagavad Gita
"Death is just the beginning of a new timeless life either with or without God. It all depends on what choice we made in our life here on earth." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo (June 2018)
"Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table is ready." ~Robin Williams
"Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." ~Anon
"Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room." ~Canon Henry Scott-Holland (1847-1918)
"Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion." ~Mata Hari
“Death is only a state of thermodynamic equilibrium!” ~Miriam Defensor Santiago
"Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity." ~ Nelson Mandela from the documentary 'Mandela', 1996 LTL
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal." ~Anon
"Death means the 'Complete End'." ~Masafumi Nagasaki
“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.” ~from BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann
"Death will one day come for us all, and we do not know when that will be, but if we dedicate our lives to God, we do know where we will spend eternity." ~Mountain Wisdom
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road that which makes death a fulfilment." ~Dag Hammarskjöld
“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.” ~Homer, The Odyssey
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every tear you weep in sorrow is caught by God’s hand and dried by the wings of an angel. Hang in there; you are never alone in sadness.” ~Robert Clancy
"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl." ~Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
"Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!" ~Grigoris Deoudis
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." ~William Penn
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun." ~Khalil Gibran
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." ~Kahlil Gibran
"From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself." ~Gabriel Byrne
"From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death — all the things that are fundamental to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed." ~Aldous Huxley
"Give me liberty or give me death." ~Patrick Henry
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death." ~Nelson Mandela from The Welcomed Consensus
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." ~Woody Allen
"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied." ~Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The Only Proof He Needed for the Existence of God Was Music." ~Kurt Vonnegut
“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.” ~Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God (Goodreads)
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been." ~Robert H. Schuller
“If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral” ~Gregory Nunn
"If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide into the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." ~Khalil Gibran
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." ~Rumi
"In a relationship of co-dependencies, the death of one leaves the other vulnerable." ~Bryan Ng Co
“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.” ~Don Juan Matus, “Journey to Ixtlán” (by Carlos Castañeda)
"In the eyes of God we are all equal, in the world of the living, the only thing that makes us equal is death ." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo
"Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, not great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow." ~Mark Helperin
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." ~Steve Jobs
“Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...” ~Longfellow on Death / immortality
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” ~Henry Van Dyke on Death
“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.” ~Minot J. Savage
“The death of our bodies is only a laying aside of the things that had allowed us to function in the world. Death itself is a continuation of life...” ~Emanuel Swedenborg
"The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities." ~Khalil Gibran
"The living is crying for itself..not for the dead.." ~Rosemarie M. Cerna, FB, 21 October 2016
"The man who knows how to live has no place for death to enter." ~Tao Te Ching
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
"The veil of darkness transformed to the brightest light. The most dreadful end became the most beautiful beginning. The depths of despair fade to reveal hope everlasting. The curse of death defeated by eternal life." ~Anon (THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT)
"The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides." ~Carl Sagan
"There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." ~C. S. Lewis
GRIEF
"After my brother, David Dill took his life to suicide in January of 2000, I once felt overwhelmed with unbearable grief. I thought a part of my heart died the day he did. Perhaps it has, but through working through my grief, I found a way out of the darkness of desolate pain of a broken heart. There is a light inside of you, no matter what pain you are experiencing. The light may appear so dark at times but it is there. The light that will give you strength to survive your journey. People move through grief, it is unavoidable. We empower ourself when we reach out and share our pain with other's who understand the unique loss of someone by suicide." ~Tina Dill Tappy from FB (sister of David Dill who took his life to suicide)
"Alone in the blackness of a starless night, I could only call upon grief’s dark cloak to cover my shivering soul." ~Robert Clancy
"And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.” ~Tiffanie DeBartolo
"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope." ~Elizabeth Gilbert
"Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss. Keep in mind that a broken heart is an open heart." ~Louise L. Hay and David Kessler
"Grief is a place you need only visit once with your heart to know that love is a place that persists forever within your heart." ~Robert Clancy
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ~Vicki Harrison
"Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a 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 Grollman
"Grief isn’t about an ending of love...it’s about the beginning of understanding how deep your love truly is." ~Robert Clancy on Sorrowful Hearts
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections." ~Anon
"Grief, it turns out, is grief, however you cut it and comparing readings for pet grief as opposed to human grief on the griefometer serves little purpose. It’s still the same familiar ache that swells from gullet to gut and fills the entire chest cavity, which only that old cliché time can heal." ~Olivia Lichtenstein from Why dead pets matter - article
"Grief, like a torn dress, should always be left at home." ~Anon
"Grief never ends, but it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith; It is the price of love." ~Anon
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." ~Marcel Proust
"I grieved today for the times I have loved so much that I forgot about myself and my own needs. I grieved today for giving so much and forgetting that I should keep a little bit back just for me. I grieved today for getting so caught up in helping others that I overlooked I needed a little help as well. I grieved today for thinking I could just do it all, denying that I also have my limits. And sometimes having limitations is a holy thing. I just wanna love people in a way that makes me feel loved too. I don’t want to forget myself anymore." ~S.C. Lourie
"In life, sometimes grief gives way to responsibility." ~Anon
"In my grief, I’m comforted by the thought that - one day, we will never have to watch someone we love go through the intense pain and suffering that comes from some dreadful disease. We will never have to sit by a bedside while a dear one loses strength and life... for illness and pain will be no more." ~Becky Kay (Acebedo Kibble)on her dying friend Patricia Hudson Wolfgang-Grentz, March 25, 2017
"... it is not the grief that stops us from starting life over again. But the fear of losing it all again." ~Christina Ramussen
"Love is like water, it needs to flow outside of the self. But people possess the gift of transference, of empathy and sublimating personal love to love for the poor and downtrodden. When they sublimate, transcend personal need for affection and move to higher levels of personal love for humanity, then there will never be grief. And love becomes noble and great." ~Claro Ganac
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." ~Clive Staples (CS) Lewis
"Not sure about empathy but I have seen grief expressed by cows and ewes when their calves and lambs are taken from them (destined for our plates). So called humane slaughter maybe, but the industrial breeding and slaughter of animals is not cruelty free." ~Jan Bow (FB)
“One joy shatters a hundred griefs” ~Chinese Proverbs
"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
"Real grief often does not hit home until much later. For many it is a grief never entirely lost." ~Prince William on Diana's 18th Death Anniversary
"There is no escaping it. Our immune systems take on the blows of grief. It’s not bad enough that we are brought to our knees when we lose a loved one but many have to suffer the devastation of a second loss and that is our own health." ~Anne M. Gorman
"Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want." ~Rumi
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” ~Euripides
"We grace each season with our hilarious madness and colorful grief. Then, we leave unannounced." ~Rolaiza Mimi Singayao
"What my mother recognized back then — and what I understand now — is that grief is the most painful experience that any child or parent can endure." ~Prince William
"When we honestly ask which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour moment of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"Whether you are suffering with personal struggles with depression, or you are in grief over the loss of a loved one's suicide, my message to you is your are NOT ALONE." ~Tina from FB (sister of David Dill who took his life to suicide)
SORROW
"Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others." ~Rumi
"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." ~Isak Dinesen
"All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working." ~Camille Pissarro
"Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow." ~Anon
“An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.” ~Richard Baxter
"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter." ~Rumi “Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.” ~Naomi Shihab Nye
"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Death is a frightful disaster no matter what the cause and the age of the person affected." ~Nelson Mandela from a letter to Irene Buthelezi, on receiving the news of his son Thembi's death, written on Robben Island, 3 August 1969
"Death is a hopeless adventure while life is an opportunity for you to become a blessing to your fellowmen." ~Rado Gatchalian, Letter to the Filipino Youth
“Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.” ~Bhagavad Gita
"Death is just the beginning of a new timeless life either with or without God. It all depends on what choice we made in our life here on earth." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo (June 2018)
"Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table is ready." ~Robin Williams
"Death is not extinguishing the light from the Christian; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come." ~Anon
"Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room." ~Canon Henry Scott-Holland (1847-1918)
"Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion." ~Mata Hari
“Death is only a state of thermodynamic equilibrium!” ~Miriam Defensor Santiago
"Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity." ~ Nelson Mandela from the documentary 'Mandela', 1996 LTL
"Death is the final destination of the living. When we escaped death; it is not yet our time." ~Carlos Bueno
"Death is the last shadow before heaven's dawn." ~Our Daily Bread
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal. Love leaves a memory no one can steal." ~Anon
"Death means the 'Complete End'." ~Masafumi Nagasaki
“Death was a blessing, so great, so deep that we can fathom it only at those moments, like this one now, when we are reprieved from it. It was the return home from long, unspeakably painful wanderings, the correction of a great error, the loosening of tormenting chains, the removal of barriers---it set a horrible accident to rights again.” ~from BUDDENBROOKS by Thomas Mann
"Death will one day come for us all, and we do not know when that will be, but if we dedicate our lives to God, we do know where we will spend eternity." ~Mountain Wisdom
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road that which makes death a fulfilment." ~Dag Hammarskjöld
“Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.” ~Homer, The Odyssey
"Even dead pets deserve to be mourned. It is as hurting when you lose someone you love like your parents and siblings." ~Leah C. Dancel, August 8, 2021
~•✿•~ ~•✿•~
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Every tear you weep in sorrow is caught by God’s hand and dried by the wings of an angel. Hang in there; you are never alone in sadness.” ~Robert Clancy
"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl." ~Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
"Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!" ~Grigoris Deoudis
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity." ~William Penn
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun." ~Khalil Gibran
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." ~Kahlil Gibran
"From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself." ~Gabriel Byrne
"From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death — all the things that are fundamental to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed." ~Aldous Huxley
"Give me liberty or give me death." ~Patrick Henry
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death." ~Nelson Mandela from The Welcomed Consensus
"I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another." ~John Lennon
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." ~Woody Allen
"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied." ~Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The Only Proof He Needed for the Existence of God Was Music." ~Kurt Vonnegut
“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.” ~Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God (Goodreads)
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been." ~Robert H. Schuller
“If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral” ~Gregory Nunn
"If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide into the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one." ~Khalil Gibran
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death." ~Rumi
"In a relationship of co-dependencies, the death of one leaves the other vulnerable." ~Bryan Ng Co
“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.” ~Don Juan Matus, “Journey to Ixtlán” (by Carlos Castañeda)
"In the eyes of God we are all equal, in the world of the living, the only thing that makes us equal is death ." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." ~Albert Einstein
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." ~Dolores Ibarruri (1895-1989)
"It is hard to have patience with people who say,ʿThere is no deathʾ and ʿDeath doesn't matter.ʾ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."~A Grief Observed
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." ~Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English lexicographer, critic and writer
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace." ~Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet
"Life is much more fearful than death." ~Laure Kendrick
"Love can vanquish death." ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Love is stronger than death even though it can’t prevent the loss of someone so dear to you. Death can never separate you from love." ~Robert Clancy on Strength in Love
"Most of us do not purposely create our legacies. We live our lives, follow our hearts, try to bravely do what our hearts tell us, and when we die, we are remembered by the collection of stories and memories that make up our lives." ~Krizette Laureta Chu, on How You Will Be Remembered When You Die
"Most people tiptoe through their life hoping to make it safely to their death." ~Earl Nightingale
"No one wants to give-up on someone they love, such as a relative, friend or lover. But, sometimes we are forced to make hard decisions by extraordinary suffering. It's easy to judge, or say, "never give-up," until you have been there. Eventually, you begin to realize that life is too short and your powers to teach, influence or heal are limited. You finally accept that their emptiness, pain and dysfunction requires more than you have to give. You can't hand your whole life and soul to someone who doesn't even care about their own. Letting go is an excruciating heartbreak; mourning the death of what once was. If you did let someone go, and you still have guilt, it's time to forgive yourself and begin to heal. If it is time to let someone go, for their sake, or for yours, then this may be your confirmation." ~Bryant McGill
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die." ~Thomas Carlyle
"Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again."
~George Eliot, The Choir Invisible
"One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death." ~Margaret Deland
"Only truth can set humans free. The day will come when they can be told openly about their real nature and destiny, and in that day their spirits will respond and unfold its glory like a flower bud opening to the sun. In that day, they will accept that the change called 'death' is but a port of departure to a greater sphere of activity. They will understand what they really are and must become, to fulfill their destiny." ~Anon
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees." ~Dolores Ibarruri (1895-1989)
"It is hard to have patience with people who say,ʿThere is no deathʾ and ʿDeath doesn't matter.ʾ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."~A Grief Observed
"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time." ~Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English lexicographer, critic and writer
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace." ~Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet
"Life is much more fearful than death." ~Laure Kendrick
"Love can vanquish death." ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Love is stronger than death even though it can’t prevent the loss of someone so dear to you. Death can never separate you from love." ~Robert Clancy on Strength in Love
"Most of us do not purposely create our legacies. We live our lives, follow our hearts, try to bravely do what our hearts tell us, and when we die, we are remembered by the collection of stories and memories that make up our lives." ~Krizette Laureta Chu, on How You Will Be Remembered When You Die
"Most people tiptoe through their life hoping to make it safely to their death." ~Earl Nightingale
"No one wants to give-up on someone they love, such as a relative, friend or lover. But, sometimes we are forced to make hard decisions by extraordinary suffering. It's easy to judge, or say, "never give-up," until you have been there. Eventually, you begin to realize that life is too short and your powers to teach, influence or heal are limited. You finally accept that their emptiness, pain and dysfunction requires more than you have to give. You can't hand your whole life and soul to someone who doesn't even care about their own. Letting go is an excruciating heartbreak; mourning the death of what once was. If you did let someone go, and you still have guilt, it's time to forgive yourself and begin to heal. If it is time to let someone go, for their sake, or for yours, then this may be your confirmation." ~Bryant McGill
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realised by man ever dies, or can die." ~Thomas Carlyle
"Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again."
~George Eliot, The Choir Invisible
"One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death." ~Margaret Deland
"Only truth can set humans free. The day will come when they can be told openly about their real nature and destiny, and in that day their spirits will respond and unfold its glory like a flower bud opening to the sun. In that day, they will accept that the change called 'death' is but a port of departure to a greater sphere of activity. They will understand what they really are and must become, to fulfill their destiny." ~Anon
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them." ~George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"People fear death even more than pain.. but life hurts more than death; because at the point of death, the pain is over." ~Jim Morrison
"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." ~Steve Jobs
“Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...” ~Longfellow on Death / immortality
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.” ~Henry Van Dyke on Death
“Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
"Staring down the brink into death’s abyss of darkness, we realize that only family is everything ~ and that death is just . . . Nothingness." ~Carlos Bueno
"The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.” ~Minot J. Savage
“The death of our bodies is only a laying aside of the things that had allowed us to function in the world. Death itself is a continuation of life...” ~Emanuel Swedenborg
"The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine." ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities." ~Khalil Gibran
"The living is crying for itself..not for the dead.." ~Rosemarie M. Cerna, FB, 21 October 2016
"The man who knows how to live has no place for death to enter." ~Tao Te Ching
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.” ~Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
"The veil of darkness transformed to the brightest light. The most dreadful end became the most beautiful beginning. The depths of despair fade to reveal hope everlasting. The curse of death defeated by eternal life." ~Anon (THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT)
"The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better, it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look Death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides." ~Carl Sagan
"There is no birth and death; everything dies and renews itself all the time. When you get that kind of insight, you no longer tire yourself out with anxiety and aversion." ~Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is no death. Only a change of worlds.” ~Chief Seattle
"Those who died yesterday had plans for this morning. And those who died this morning had plans for tonight. Don't take life for granted. In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may never know when you may not have that chance again." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." ~Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929)
"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."~Harold MacMillan
"We die only once, and for such a long time." ~Moliere, French Playwright
"What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body." ~Dr. Hans Selye
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." ~Albert Pike
“When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself of everything and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live.” ~Dr. Richard Teo Keng Siang
"When someone you love dies, it changes your life forever. It is not something you 'get over'. The loss now becomes a part of who you are." ~Anon
"When we die, we simply move from one world into another." ~Emanuel Swedenborg
"You die the way you live your life." ~Timothy E. Quill, MD
"You don't die until the last person that knew you leaves this Earth. Then ad only then do you die." ~John Hill
"Those who died yesterday had plans for this morning. And those who died this morning had plans for tonight. Don't take life for granted. In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may never know when you may not have that chance again." ~Lessons Learned in Life
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." ~Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929)
"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."~Harold MacMillan
"We die only once, and for such a long time." ~Moliere, French Playwright
"What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body." ~Dr. Hans Selye
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." ~Albert Pike
“When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself of everything and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live.” ~Dr. Richard Teo Keng Siang
"When someone you love dies, it changes your life forever. It is not something you 'get over'. The loss now becomes a part of who you are." ~Anon
"When we die, we simply move from one world into another." ~Emanuel Swedenborg
"You die the way you live your life." ~Timothy E. Quill, MD
"You don't die until the last person that knew you leaves this Earth. Then ad only then do you die." ~John Hill
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now." ~Joan Baez
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” ~Charles Bukowski
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." ~C. S. Lewis
GRIEF
Credit: FB
"After my brother, David Dill took his life to suicide in January of 2000, I once felt overwhelmed with unbearable grief. I thought a part of my heart died the day he did. Perhaps it has, but through working through my grief, I found a way out of the darkness of desolate pain of a broken heart. There is a light inside of you, no matter what pain you are experiencing. The light may appear so dark at times but it is there. The light that will give you strength to survive your journey. People move through grief, it is unavoidable. We empower ourself when we reach out and share our pain with other's who understand the unique loss of someone by suicide." ~Tina Dill Tappy from FB (sister of David Dill who took his life to suicide)
"Alone in the blackness of a starless night, I could only call upon grief’s dark cloak to cover my shivering soul." ~Robert Clancy
"And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.” ~Tiffanie DeBartolo
"Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope." ~Elizabeth Gilbert
“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve." ~Brian Jacques, Redwall
"Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it." ~Josiah Gilbert Holland
"From attachment comes grief, from attachment comes fear; he who is free from attachment knows neither grief nor fear." ~The Buddha
"Grief and Sadness to me often feels like a Beautiful Waltz~ we have to learn to give ourselves space and time to dance this dance. Everything has a way of dancing; even the molecules inside the cells of our body dance. More often than not we choose the backward steps of the waltz making us very heavy on our feet, not easy for our partners ~friends and lost loved ones that are leading us through this dance." ~Blue Heart Connections
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~Rumi
"Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain; and only faith can do it." ~Josiah Gilbert Holland
"From attachment comes grief, from attachment comes fear; he who is free from attachment knows neither grief nor fear." ~The Buddha
"Grief and Sadness to me often feels like a Beautiful Waltz~ we have to learn to give ourselves space and time to dance this dance. Everything has a way of dancing; even the molecules inside the cells of our body dance. More often than not we choose the backward steps of the waltz making us very heavy on our feet, not easy for our partners ~friends and lost loved ones that are leading us through this dance." ~Blue Heart Connections
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~Rumi
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get to the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." ~Mark Twain
"Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature." ~Anthony Rapp
"Grief from the loss of a dear loved one is there to show you the depths of your heart—because even in your darkest place, love’s light still shines there." ~Robert Clancy
"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go." ~Jamie Anderson
"Grief from the loss of a dear loved one is there to show you the depths of your heart—because even in your darkest place, love’s light still shines there." ~Robert Clancy
"Grief, I've learned, is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go." ~Jamie Anderson
"Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape." ~C.S. Lewis
"Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss. Keep in mind that a broken heart is an open heart." ~Louise L. Hay and David Kessler
"Grief is a place you need only visit once with your heart to know that love is a place that persists forever within your heart." ~Robert Clancy
"Grief is like living two lives. One is where you "pretend" everything is alright, and the other is where your heart silently screams in pain." ~Anon
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” ~Vicki Harrison
"Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a 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 Grollman
"Grief isn’t about an ending of love...it’s about the beginning of understanding how deep your love truly is." ~Robert Clancy on Sorrowful Hearts
"Grief is only the memory of widowed affections." ~Anon
"Grief, it turns out, is grief, however you cut it and comparing readings for pet grief as opposed to human grief on the griefometer serves little purpose. It’s still the same familiar ache that swells from gullet to gut and fills the entire chest cavity, which only that old cliché time can heal." ~Olivia Lichtenstein from Why dead pets matter - article
"Grief, like a torn dress, should always be left at home." ~Anon
"Grief never ends, but it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith; It is the price of love." ~Anon
"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." ~Marcel Proust
"I grieved today for the times I have loved so much that I forgot about myself and my own needs. I grieved today for giving so much and forgetting that I should keep a little bit back just for me. I grieved today for getting so caught up in helping others that I overlooked I needed a little help as well. I grieved today for thinking I could just do it all, denying that I also have my limits. And sometimes having limitations is a holy thing. I just wanna love people in a way that makes me feel loved too. I don’t want to forget myself anymore." ~S.C. Lourie
"In life, sometimes grief gives way to responsibility." ~Anon
"In my grief, I’m comforted by the thought that - one day, we will never have to watch someone we love go through the intense pain and suffering that comes from some dreadful disease. We will never have to sit by a bedside while a dear one loses strength and life... for illness and pain will be no more." ~Becky Kay (Acebedo Kibble)on her dying friend Patricia Hudson Wolfgang-Grentz, March 25, 2017
"... it is not the grief that stops us from starting life over again. But the fear of losing it all again." ~Christina Ramussen
"Love is like water, it needs to flow outside of the self. But people possess the gift of transference, of empathy and sublimating personal love to love for the poor and downtrodden. When they sublimate, transcend personal need for affection and move to higher levels of personal love for humanity, then there will never be grief. And love becomes noble and great." ~Claro Ganac
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." ~Clive Staples (CS) Lewis
"Not sure about empathy but I have seen grief expressed by cows and ewes when their calves and lambs are taken from them (destined for our plates). So called humane slaughter maybe, but the industrial breeding and slaughter of animals is not cruelty free." ~Jan Bow (FB)
“One joy shatters a hundred griefs” ~Chinese Proverbs
"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
"Real grief often does not hit home until much later. For many it is a grief never entirely lost." ~Prince William on Diana's 18th Death Anniversary
"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." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(Book: On Grief and Grieving)
"There is no escaping it. Our immune systems take on the blows of grief. It’s not bad enough that we are brought to our knees when we lose a loved one but many have to suffer the devastation of a second loss and that is our own health." ~Anne M. Gorman
"Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want." ~Rumi
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.” ~Euripides
"What my mother recognized back then — and what I understand now — is that grief is the most painful experience that any child or parent can endure." ~Prince William
"When we honestly ask which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour moment of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." ~Henri J.M. Nouwen
"Whether you are suffering with personal struggles with depression, or you are in grief over the loss of a loved one's suicide, my message to you is your are NOT ALONE." ~Tina from FB (sister of David Dill who took his life to suicide)
SORROW
"Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others." ~Rumi
"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." ~Isak Dinesen
"All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working." ~Camille Pissarro
"Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow." ~Anon
“An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.” ~Richard Baxter
"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter." ~Rumi “Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.” ~Naomi Shihab Nye
"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason." ~Khaled Hosseini
"But since I have come to this abode of sorrow I am too insignificant to know what I am." ~O. Khayyam
"Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees." ~Swedish Proverb
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." ~Victor Hugo
"I am only visiting here as one day when God calls me home, I will fly away and where I am going no more troubles or sorrow will there be." ~Mountain Wisdom
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ~Anne Frank
“I've discovered over the years that the simplest explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another―desire, by another name―is the source of almost every sorrow.” ~Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs
"It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing." ~Homer
"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
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion." ~Buddha
"Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself." ~Rumi
"People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will 'lessen as time passes', but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant. But if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So, in the end, we just pack it into bags and find somewhere to leave it." ~Fredrik Backman
"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow." ~Khalil Gibran
"Sorrow can be alleviated by a good sleep, a bath, and a glass of wine." ~Thomas Aquinas
"Sorrow comes in great waves... but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." ~Henry James
"Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it." ~Victor Hugo
"Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
"Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends." ~African Proverb
“Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." ~Rumi
"Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted." ~Paulo Coelho
"Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted." ~Paulo Coelho
“Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. In those transparent moments we know other people’s joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own.” ~Fritz Williams
"The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow." ~Hazrat Inayat Khan
"The busy bee has no time for sorrow." ~William Blake
"The garden has been part of my life every day, in every season and in all weather. It has witnessed my greatest joys and absorbed my deepest sorrows." ~Sydney Eddison
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." ~Sophocles
"The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open. Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade. Joke with torment brought by the friend. Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath is the sweetness that comes after grief. The hurt you embrace becomes joy." ~Rumi
"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities." ~Sophocles
"The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open. Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade. Joke with torment brought by the friend. Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath is the sweetness that comes after grief. The hurt you embrace becomes joy." ~Rumi
"The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.”
~William Cowper on Sorrow
Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.”
~William Cowper on Sorrow
"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed." ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to us." ~Meister Eckhart
"Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ~Rumi on loneliness
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" ~George Eliot
"When I visited the zoo as a child, I was happy to see the animals. Now, I do not visit the zoo, because I do not see the animals, I see their sorrow." ~A.D. Williams
"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
"Write your sorrows in sand and your blessings in stone." ~Anon
OTHERS
"Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice. meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whatever comes. because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ” ~Rumi on loneliness
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?" ~George Eliot
"When I visited the zoo as a child, I was happy to see the animals. Now, I do not visit the zoo, because I do not see the animals, I see their sorrow." ~A.D. Williams
"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
"Write your sorrows in sand and your blessings in stone." ~Anon
OTHERS
"A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.” ~Brian Jacques, Redwall
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."~Voltaire
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." ~Grace Hansen
"During the times that hurt the most, it is important to remember that the people we lose are never gone from us. They will always exist in the hearts of those they loved, in memories and in their legacy that will continue on forever." ~Tobin Brothers
"During the times that hurt the most, it is important to remember that the people we lose are never gone from us. They will always exist in the hearts of those they loved, in memories and in their legacy that will continue on forever." ~Tobin Brothers
"Give yourself time to mourn what you think you have lost." ~Oprah Winfrey, Speech at Harvard University Commencement Exercise 2013
“I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.” ~Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Goodreads)
"I've never fancied being cremated or buried. I keep hoping I can hold out long enough for someone to discover some new and more suitable medium for my expiry. Evaporation through abstruse sentence, say. Interment in metaphor. Scatter me in words, O my beloved." ~Howard Jacobson
"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping." ~Rumi
"Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is this losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities." ~Quotes Gate
"The pain of losing someone, made me focus on what I feel passionate about. So, follow your heart, allow pain to guide you, and never stop being a traveller!" ~Michel May (Daily NAS, 1-minute story)
"There are losses that rearrange the world. Deaths that change the way you see everything. Pain that transports you to an entirely different universe, even while everyone else thinks nothing has really changed." ~Megan Devine
"We go to our graves clutched in our hands with nothing except those that we have given away." ~Anon
"When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to learn with the love they left behind." ~Anon
"You would be late for your own funeral.” ~Anon
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"Gone from our sight,
But never our memories -
Gone from our touch,
But never our hearts."
~Anon
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LOVE ME NOW WHILE I CAN KNOW
"If you're ever going to love me, love me now while I can know.
All the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.
Love me now, while I'm living; do not wait 'til I am gone.
And then chisel it on marble - words on ice, cold stone.
If you have dear sweet thoughts about me. Why not whisper them to me?
Don't you know it would make me happy and as glad as glad could be?
If you wait until I'm sleeping, never to awaken here again,
there will be walls of earth between us and couldn't hear you then.
I won't need your kind caresses when the grass grows over my face.
I won't crave your love or kisses in my last low resting place.
So then, if you love me any, if it's but a little bit.
Let me know while I am living, so I can own it treasure it."
~Anon
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"Since sorrow follows joy
As autumn does the spring
Man must transcend the joys
Of earth, which sorrows bring."
~Mirza Ghalib
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THE THING IS
By Ellen Bass
To love life, to love it even
When you have no stomach for it
And everything you've held dear
Crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
Your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, it's tropical heat
Thickening the air, heavy as water
More fit for gills than lungs;
When grief weights you like your own flesh
Only more of it, an obesity of grief,
You think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
Between your palms, a plain face,
No charming smile, no violet eyes,
And you say, yes, I will take you.
I will love you, again.
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"There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on"
“I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.” ~Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Goodreads)
"I've never fancied being cremated or buried. I keep hoping I can hold out long enough for someone to discover some new and more suitable medium for my expiry. Evaporation through abstruse sentence, say. Interment in metaphor. Scatter me in words, O my beloved." ~Howard Jacobson
"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping." ~Rumi
"Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is this losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities." ~Quotes Gate
"The pain of losing someone, made me focus on what I feel passionate about. So, follow your heart, allow pain to guide you, and never stop being a traveller!" ~Michel May (Daily NAS, 1-minute story)
"There are losses that rearrange the world. Deaths that change the way you see everything. Pain that transports you to an entirely different universe, even while everyone else thinks nothing has really changed." ~Megan Devine
"We go to our graves clutched in our hands with nothing except those that we have given away." ~Anon
"When we lose someone we love, we must learn not to live without them, but to learn with the love they left behind." ~Anon
"You would be late for your own funeral.” ~Anon
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"Gone from our sight,
But never our memories -
Gone from our touch,
But never our hearts."
~Anon
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LOVE ME NOW WHILE I CAN KNOW
"If you're ever going to love me, love me now while I can know.
All the sweet and tender feelings which from real affection flow.
Love me now, while I'm living; do not wait 'til I am gone.
And then chisel it on marble - words on ice, cold stone.
If you have dear sweet thoughts about me. Why not whisper them to me?
Don't you know it would make me happy and as glad as glad could be?
If you wait until I'm sleeping, never to awaken here again,
there will be walls of earth between us and couldn't hear you then.
I won't need your kind caresses when the grass grows over my face.
I won't crave your love or kisses in my last low resting place.
So then, if you love me any, if it's but a little bit.
Let me know while I am living, so I can own it treasure it."
~Anon
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"Since sorrow follows joy
As autumn does the spring
Man must transcend the joys
Of earth, which sorrows bring."
~Mirza Ghalib
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THE THING IS
By Ellen Bass
To love life, to love it even
When you have no stomach for it
And everything you've held dear
Crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
Your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, it's tropical heat
Thickening the air, heavy as water
More fit for gills than lungs;
When grief weights you like your own flesh
Only more of it, an obesity of grief,
You think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
Between your palms, a plain face,
No charming smile, no violet eyes,
And you say, yes, I will take you.
I will love you, again.
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"There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on"
~Herbert Kretzmer
(Empty Chairs and Empty Tables from Les Miserables)
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There beyond the confines of stone
Beyond this flesh and bone
Beyond the chasm that once housed this heart
We dare to dream of life's restart
How will it come to us this recognition
Without the mind there is indecision
The blackness remains in shades of grey
Still locked in twilights eternity my mood is fey
Without love I am unbound
No trace, no breath no sound
I am the wind that chills the marrow
Here still the same with the morrow
No slumber, no rest, just an echoing memory
Death am I, a departed tragedy
I haunt your steps but you do not see
The eternity of you, without me ......
By David Slater
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"There is always a corner
A place set aside
For the timeline of our lives.
Somewhere that we all walk by
But strangers stop
And time just helps to grow
A place where life stands still
Yet moves constantly forward
And dust inevitably always settles."
~Shadowlands
Births, Deaths And ...
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"When I am gone, release me; let me go
I have so many things to see and do.
You must not tie yourself to me with tears
Be happy that we had so many years
I gave you love, you can only guess
how much you gave me in happiness.
I thank you for the love each have shown
but now it is time I travelled alone.
So grieve awhile for me if grieve you must,
then let your grief be comforted by trust.
It is only for a while that we must part
so bless those memories within your heart.
I will not be far away, for life goes on.
So if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you cannot see or touch me, I will be near
And if you listen with your heart, you will hear.
All of my love around you, soft and clear.
Then when you must come this way alone,
I will greet you with a smile and a welcome home."
Source: Elida Ynclan Davila, FB
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"You are the comfort of my Soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss."
~Rumi
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(Empty Chairs and Empty Tables from Les Miserables)
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There beyond the confines of stone
Beyond this flesh and bone
Beyond the chasm that once housed this heart
We dare to dream of life's restart
How will it come to us this recognition
Without the mind there is indecision
The blackness remains in shades of grey
Still locked in twilights eternity my mood is fey
Without love I am unbound
No trace, no breath no sound
I am the wind that chills the marrow
Here still the same with the morrow
No slumber, no rest, just an echoing memory
Death am I, a departed tragedy
I haunt your steps but you do not see
The eternity of you, without me ......
By David Slater
❤❤❤
"There is always a corner
A place set aside
For the timeline of our lives.
Somewhere that we all walk by
But strangers stop
And time just helps to grow
A place where life stands still
Yet moves constantly forward
And dust inevitably always settles."
~Shadowlands
Births, Deaths And ...
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"When I am gone, release me; let me go
I have so many things to see and do.
You must not tie yourself to me with tears
Be happy that we had so many years
I gave you love, you can only guess
how much you gave me in happiness.
I thank you for the love each have shown
but now it is time I travelled alone.
So grieve awhile for me if grieve you must,
then let your grief be comforted by trust.
It is only for a while that we must part
so bless those memories within your heart.
I will not be far away, for life goes on.
So if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you cannot see or touch me, I will be near
And if you listen with your heart, you will hear.
All of my love around you, soft and clear.
Then when you must come this way alone,
I will greet you with a smile and a welcome home."
Source: Elida Ynclan Davila, FB
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"You are the comfort of my Soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss."
~Rumi
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