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“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”

Book:Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

Source: Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

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Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.”

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Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“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

“We're seeing people in the streets because this last week [since November 8, 2016] was a week of grief and mourning and despair for many.”

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Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“The only cure for grief is action.”

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”

“Though lovers be lost love shall not.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

Source: Complete Works

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.”

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Author:William C. Bryant

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

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Author:Kenji Miyazawa

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

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Author:Coco Chanel

“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“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

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”

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Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

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

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Author:Khalil Gibran

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

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.”

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Book:Voices of Death

Source: Voices of Death

“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 we shall remain inconsolable and will never find a substitute. No matter what may fill the gap, even if it be filled completely, it nevertheless remains something else.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”

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Author:Antonio Porchia

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

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Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.”

“What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.”

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Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.”

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Book:Voices of Death

Source: Voices of Death