Best grief & dying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.”

Author:William Wallace

“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

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

“American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.”

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

“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

Feels Firsts I Can Body Running Young Certain House Grief Forever Taken Dying Poet Judgment Delight Lovely Back And Forth Down The Road Pints Running Back

Author:J. D. Salinger

“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

“Oh, good grief! I’ve never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he’s dying. I’m in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam) I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)”

Men Heaven Grief Dying Please Picks Ashes Baggage Marry Me Grunt Pick Me Pick Me Up

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“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.”

“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”

Knows Eye Lasts Grief Half Know How Century Dying Tears Sorrow Breaths Grateful Finals Despite God Knows Luminous I Loved You Cholera Half A Century Only God Knows

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

World Stills Death Grief Sea Dying Crossings Griefing Someone Dying Deathly Hallows Death Remembrance

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.”

Believe Care Death Used Causes Grief Accepting Dying Reputation Bereavement Rules For Radicals

Author:Saul Alinsky

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

Ifs Should Heart Soul Body Answers Grief Dying Flower Remains Seeds Grieving Mourning Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Remembrance Bereavement Memorial Mourn Condolences My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Condolence Message Sympathy Card Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy My Condolences Death Remembrance Loved One Dying Death Memorial Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Death And Mourning Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Condolences Poems Death Mourning Mourning A Loss Mourning Death

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

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

“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.”

Grief Honest Dying Listening Offers Medicine Funeral Inspirational Grief

Author:Jeanie (Jenny) Cameron

“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.”

Kind Important Shows Death Purpose Grief Opinion Dying Comfort Funeral Display Comforting Hearted Loving You Kind Hearted

Book:Modern manners

Source: Modern manners

“In my end is my beginning”

Ends Death Grief Dying

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.”

“I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.”

Ifs Suffering Language Grief Dying Sorrow Glorious Priests Exhausted Knots Headache Sorrowful

Author:Virginia Heffernan

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