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Quotes about Grief

Laugh and a moment will soon arrive when you cry.

Kedar : Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
Kedar Joshi
Source: Superultramodern Science and Philosophy
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"There's no way around grief and loss: you can doge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully come out the other side.  The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left."

Johnny Cash
Source: from Johnny Cash's autobiography
Contributed by: Monica. More quotes added by mlynn7 from all sources
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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 a part of us shall remain inconsolable and never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it is completely filled, it will nevertheless remain something changed forever...

Sigmund Freud : Austrian founder of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
 
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Wrapped in grief is the gift of joy.

Amazume : Pure Light Combustion
Nell Tomassen Reboh
Source: Amazume
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Birth and death are events in time and space.... there is nothing but Life.

Betty Kovacs
Source: The Miracle of Death, Page: 63
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I sometimes hold it half a sin, To put in words the grief I feel. For words, like nature, half reveal, And half conceal the soul within.

Alfred, Lord TENNYSON : English, most famous poet of theVictorian age.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Source: In Memoriam
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran : Lebanese mystical poet, philosopher & painter
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
 
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
 
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Even sorrow or sympathy for the afflicted, or grief for the passing of loved ones, unbalances the body cells and makes one vulnerable to infections or destructive toxins, for such emotions have no relation to love or the inner joyousness of love-inspired man, nor are they within the God-Mind which alone knows unchanging ecstasy.
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature.
The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion – ECSTASY – the ecstasy of Love – the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

Walter Russell : Gaia Child
Walter Russell
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"Hope is grief's best music."

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unknown
 
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When my father died, I moved into the space he left inside me and found out it was where I belonged.

Farland : almost human
Farland Fish
 
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Courage is resistance to fear, not absence of it

Mark Twain : American writer, pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Source: After the Funeral is Over, Doris Zagdanski
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I suspect that if we could sum up in a single sentence what our purpose in life would be - it's that we were born to be "fully Self-expressive".  And we could put a big chunk of the world's suffering under the categories of "suffering because we know that we're not expressing our Selves fully, or mourning that we don't even know who that is, or that we lost touch with that Self somewhere along the way".  It's incredibly frustrating to know that you have something inside of you like that and to not be quite reaching the point of giving birth to it - to be bringing it out into the world.

Tracy : The Say 'YES!' Coach
Tracy A. Phaup
Source: http://www.everybodygoes.com/quotations/suffering-quotes.htm
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Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts—and it may be the greatest pain in life—grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.

Gerald May
 
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Source: Beliefnet.com
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I believe imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history.  I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief.  And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It, Page: preface
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"From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?"

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: Dhammapada 216
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All I know from my own experience is that 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
 
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All I know from my own experience is that 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
 
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When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably, we will feel about us, their arms and their understanding.

Helen Adams Keller : American writer & lecturer, blind & deaf
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
 
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"You mourn, for it is proper to mourn.
But your grief serves you; you do not
become a slave to grief.

You bid the dead farewell,
and you continue."

-- Neil Gaiman, from The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake; "Exiles"

Neil Gaiman (1960 - )
Source: The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake, Page: 135
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Poetry is about the grief.  Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Lee Frost : American poet, winner of Pulitzer prize in 1923, '30, '36, & '42
Robert Frost
 
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The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow. Keep your intelligence white-hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh. Cry easily like a little child.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.

Krishna
Source: The Bhagavad Gita
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Recipe for greatness - To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great.

Zane Grey (1875 - 1939)
 
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ROMEO But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she: Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love!

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
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To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Henry VI, Part III, Act II
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You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Lear, Act: II Scene: iv
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Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: LOVE'S LABOURS LOST, Act 5, Scene 2
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare : English poet, the greatest poet ever
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Source: King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1, song
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