Best grief & death Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

“Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.”

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Book:A Cynthia Ozick reader

Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader

“A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.”

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Book:Selected letters of Don Marquis

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

Author:Washington Irving

“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”

“Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.”

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Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

“Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”

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Book:The Select Works of William Penn....

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.”

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Author:Saul Alinsky

“There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge 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.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”

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Author:Leon Bloy

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

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Author:Coco Chanel

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”

“Grief is itself a medicine.”

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Author:William Cowper

“Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

“The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.”

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Book:Modern manners

Source: Modern manners

“In my end is my beginning”

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Author:Mary, Queen of Scots

“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.”

“The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.”

“We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.”

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Book:Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four

Source: Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four

“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?”

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