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“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.”

Grief Calm Grieving Bereavement Griefing

“I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.”

Way Inspirational Needs Believe Children Doe Hope Fear Watches Darkness Sun Rocks Standing My Way Rising Lightning Rainbow Sunrise Thunder Bereavement Helping Hand Light And Dark Helpers

Author:Joe Mahoney

“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”

People Thinking Knows Children Order Black Memories Poor Grief Patient Division Rejoice Poor People Violet Purple Be Patient Bereavement Rebellious Radiant

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life”

Humans Kind May Long Feelings Lasts Sadness Human Nature Horror Disappointment Misfortunes Incapable Bereavement

Book:A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

Source: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

“You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.”

Body House Fields Wind Mountain Your Body Bereavement Confined

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in a fragment of glass or a splinter of wood? A terrible emptiness settles into my chest. No matter how much I go about living, there are always small reminders that make the loss fresh again.”

Thinking Doe Stills Matter Mother Loss Terrible Glasses Woods Settling Staring Emptiness Chests Scent Fragments Reminders Bereavement Pillars Discarded Remnants Splinters

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.”

Can Do Grief Arms Lessons Bed Life Lesson Lap Bereavement Pillow Timetables

Author:Patti Davis

“As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.”

Feels Body Form Parent Loss Perfect Growing Weight Absence Tiny Cried Bereavement Unbearable Sherry

Author:Robert Wiersema

“"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."”

Source: Sermons Preached in Manchester: First series

“This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.”

Done Hate Sin Grief Worst I Hate Thee This Day Bereavement Sins Not

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.”

Feels Trying Doe Death Speak Comfort Oneself Helpless Bereavement Comforter

Book:Letters and Memorials...

Source: Letters and Memorials...

“If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.”

“The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.”

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

Love Death Dies Love Is Immortality Grieving Sympathy Lost Love Death Of A Loved One Bereavement Emily Condolences Losing A Loved One My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Lost Ones Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Loss Loved One Inspirational Grief Comfort Condolence Message Death Of A Friend Sympathy Card Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Lost Loved Ones Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Sympathy For A Friend Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy Comforting Death My Condolences Death Remembrance Loved One Dying Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Loved Ones Who Died Sympathy And Love Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Grief And Loss Inspirational Mourning A Loss Memorial For Loved One Condolence Card Unable To Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)

“When you are sorrowful, look again.”

Looks Grief And Loss Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Bereavement Memorial Weeping Grief And Healing Condolences Sorrowful Griefing Joys And Sorrows My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Grief Loss Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Grief And Death Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Dealing With Death Grief Healing Death Condolences Help With Grief Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Grief Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Sympathy For A Friend Funeral Condolences Grieving And Healing Inspirational Bereavement Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Grieving Loss Death And Mourning Death Mourning Healing From Loss Deep Sorrow Grief And Loss Inspirational Grieving And Loss Tears Of Sorrow Looking For Sympathy

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.”

Shows Evil Bereavement

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.”

Grief Compassion Power Strength Cry Tears Sad Losing Empathy Weakness Mark Grieving Mourning Grief And Loss Overwhelming Historian Sympathy Bereavement Criminal Mind Messengers Unspeakable Grief And Healing Essayists Condolences Sacredness Griefing Losing Someone Consoling Losing A Loved One Biographers Grief Loss Death Grief Grief And Death Those Grieving Best Criminal Minds Grief And Mourning Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Death And Grieving Grief Comfort Grief Healing Stages Of Grief Used In Criminal Minds Grief And Hope Contrition Inspirational Grief Inspirational Mourning Sadness And Sorrow Death Grieving Comforting Death Grieving And Healing Comfort The Grieving Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Famous Condolence Tears And Crying Death And Mourning Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Death Mourning Healing From Loss Recovering From Grief Mourning Death Tears Of Sorrow Sacredness Of Life

Author:Washington Irving

“A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.”

Soul Christ Share Bears Sorrow Crosses Disappointment Believer Saved Consolation Bereavement

Author:J. C. Ryle

“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”

Universal Bereavement Grief Observed Pain Of Separation

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

“I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.”

“Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.”

Dies Courses Memories Grief Regret Terrible Reflection Bereavement

Author:Richard Dawkins

“When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.”

People Want Needs Giving Stories Shows Problem Form Grief Focus Listening Empathy Disaster Temptation Consolation Bereavement Telling Stories Tiresome Consoling Other People's Problems

Author:Giles Andreae

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”

Source: Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book

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