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“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Firsts Waiting Failing Missing Grieving Waiting For You Leaves Of Grass Fetch

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

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Book:The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume

“In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears”

Ifs Should Years Heart Long Spirit Forget Secret Silence Tears Mets Thee Grieving Deceiving Should I

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

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

“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”

Heart Whole Universe Peace Break Grieving Bodhisattva

Book:Despair and personal power in the nuclear age

Source: Despair and personal power in the nuclear age

“If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?”

Ifs Soul Left Brain Wonder Watches Grace Skins Celebrate My Soul Grieving Collections Makeup Chemicals Metals Rejoice Liquid There Is No God Daily Living

Author:Sharon Shinn

“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

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”

“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”

Heart Littles Real Helping Might Eye Wanted Moving Joy Lying Felt Healing Pieces Broken Arms My Heart Picks Grieving Contentment Mud Real Joy

Author:Anne Lamott

“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

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Author:A. A. Milne

“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.”

Ifs Believe Heart Matter Dream Wish Grieving Cheer Up Keep Believing Animated Movies Fairy Godmother Cute Dream Disney Channel

Author:Walt Disney

“I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.”

World Believe May Two Dream Seems Found Names Grief Virtue Failing Goodness Fairs Grieving Deceiving Foe Sincerely Merciful Snares

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.”

Needs Pain Past Order Loss Wife Demand Caught Grieving Salt Pillars Choose Life Great Loss

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

Ifs Has Beens Light Dark Loss Darkness Novelists Grieving Discontent Light And Dark Griefing

Book:The Winter of our Discontent

Source: The Winter of our Discontent

“Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.”

Joy Friendship Grief Grieving Divides Real Friends

Author:Thomas Fuller

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.”

Source: Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910

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

“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

“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?”

Ifs Want Helping Blood Grieving Intensity Vessel Blood Vessels Early Love

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

Inspirational Motivational Earth Mother Sun Circles Grieving Lamps Eco

Book:The Road film tie-in

Source: The Road film tie-in

“It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.”

Way Light Lasts Rivers Window Grieving Last Time Magnifying Poignancy

Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Those things that hurt, instruct.”

Inspiration Hurt Grief Emotion Teaching Grieving Griefing Losing A Loved One Help With Grief

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.”

Men Action Causes Understanding Results Worry Effects Relation Remains Calm Cease Grieving Internals Cause And Effect Serene Steadfast A Man Thinketh

Book:As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives

Source: As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.”

“Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.”

Soul School Night Fighting Hurt Courage Wife Rights Easier Husband Goodness Stones Stronger Grieving Insult Have Faith Cowardice Charitable School Friends

Author:Paulo Coelho

“What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.”

Thinking Joy Rain Glad Grieving Unexpected Throat

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

Inspirational Grief Tears Waste Grieving Live For Today Past Present And Future Past Present Future Future And Present Deep Life Past Present Future Love

Author:Euripides

“Why is the measure of love loss?”

Loss Grieving Love Loss

Book:Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

Source: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”

“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.”

Feels Done Death Grief Function Painful Grieving Void Torn Limbs Vivid Bereavement Parting Short Time Amputation

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.”

Knows Believe Children Father Poor Sweet Blind Ghost Naked Miserable Grieving Nightmare Roof Wretched Shuddering Sweet Child

Book:Road Novels 1957-1960

Source: Road Novels 1957-1960

“Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’”

Trying Feelings Pain Order Energy Healing Sadness Emotional Involved Painful Heal Release Grieving Slogans Freeze Emotional Pain Therapeutic Discharge

Book:Healing the Shame that Binds You

Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You

“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

“Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.”

Ifs Should Hands Remember Poetry Turns Forget Half Darkness Gone Land Praying Late Silent Corruption Grieving Our Future Far Away Remember Me Hold Me Forget Me Gone Away Grieving Poems

Author:Christina Rossetti

“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.”

Trying Together Hurt My Own Grief Streets Rocks Cry Tears Sorrow Despair Grieving Flood Notebook Griefing Notebook Love

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.”

Soul Pain Remember Night Fall Passion Pleasure Emotion Loneliness Summer Rain Winter Mood Snow Forests Grieving Branches Divinity Autumn Wet Destined Elation Autumn Nights

Book:Harmonium

Source: Harmonium

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.”

Way Two Real Self Suffering Fall Fear Challenges Worry Habit Losing Tragedy Grieving Destructive Inner Strength Two Ways Self Destructive Losing Hope

Author:Dalai Lama

“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

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”

“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

People House Dying Happenings Sick Weight Leaving Grieving Getting Old Unnoticed

Book:Middlesex: A Novel

Source: Middlesex: A Novel

“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

Persons Grieving

Book:On The Jellicoe Road

Source: On The Jellicoe Road

“In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.”

Done Lost Loses Easier Losing Grieving Losing Friends

Book:Incantation

Source: Incantation

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

Source: Taggerung

“I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.”

Ifs Mind Long Night Pleasure Winter Legs Manners Grieving Winter Night Big Sleep

Author:Raymond Chandler