Quotes About Grief

he still had carnality in his heart. As he lay there, he repeatedly quoted Hebrews 12:14, "Follow . . . holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." He grieved that he had won so few to the Lord.

If love killed, let it kill him now. Maybe they would be reunited in death.

And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.

There is a tragedy in unloved years, And in those passionate hours by love deceived, In lips unkissed and hopes too soon bereaved, And youth's high courage which no strength could save, And manhood's web of fate by folly weaved, And grey-haired grief brought down into the grave. Who shall distinguish truly and be wise 'Twixt grief and grief, 'twixt night and night?

Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars? Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city. A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain.

Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

There are many ways to lose your relatives, I thought; war is only one of them.

Something in her had been broken... The ones who were killed were not the only ones who'd been lost.

were to die, even if one's brother or darling son should be killed before one's eyes. The drug is called nepenthê, which means "no grief," the penthê in nepenthê deriving from the noun penthos, "grief." It is, indeed, a word formed much the same way that anodyne, "without pain," the word that points to the origins

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

Que un hijo muera antes que su padre. Revierte el orden natural de las cosas. —Arrojó su cigarrillo al fuego—. Uno no puede llorar como es debido.

A terrible thing, isn't it?" "What's that, Ari?" "For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things.

For the child to die before the parent. It upends the natural order of things . One can't grieve properly. One can only think of vengeance. - Ari Shamron I

In a strange way, death is actually one of the steps of the code. It isn't listed in the algorithm, of course, but it's there. The first step. Everyone knows it, but no one will say it. Even though the patient has already died from the devastation of disease, the code presses on until someone "calls it." Then, and only then, can death be acknowledged. It is a wrenching combination of human grief and quotidian bureaucracy.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

Ispod toga sam bio zapisao pre nekoliko ve?eri, kada mi je postalo jasno da Euridika više ne?e do?i: Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Ožiljkom jednim oboga?en.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

My parakeet died. We were playing badminton.

Was herunterfallen kann, hält man mit Händen, doch was in meinem Herzen ist, damit werde ich sterben.

Die Menschen, die dich umgeben, sind ein Teil von dir. Ihr habt eine gemeinsame Geschichte. Sie können sie sogar mit dir gemeinsam schreiben. Und wenn du einen verlierst, verlierst du damit ein Stück von dir, egal wie du ihn verloren hast.

There is no greater grief in misery than to turn our thoughts back to happier times.*

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.