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Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
Author Unknown
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
Bede Jarrett
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
Colette
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.
Dan Rather
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
E.M. Cioran
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
From a headstone in Ireland
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From the television show The Wonder Years
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
George Eliot
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.
Henry Maudsley
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
Jacques Pr?vert
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Jan Glidewell
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
John Taylor
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
Kenji Miyazawa
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss"
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Mary C. Crowley
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway.
Moliere
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
 
 
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