Top 1200 Grief And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore a right understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life an unlimited time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terror; for those who thoroughly apprehend that there are no terrors for them in ceasing to live.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

I tried to think about these two issues very freely. With sex, I think I can manage with that. With death, this is a more difficult theme for me. I'm not a believer, even though I'm baptized. I don't practice. I don't believe in God, so I feel very alone facing death. What I discovered is that the only way to recognize death is if you are part of life, if you are part of sexual pleasure, if you link it with sexual pleasure.

Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

If death disappears there will be no mystery in life. That's why a dead thing has no mystery in it, a corpse has no mystery in it, because it cannot die anymore. You think it has no mystery because life has disappeared? No, it has no mystery because now it cannot die anymore. Death has disappeared, and with death automatically life disappears. Life is only one of the ways of death's expression.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat.

Grief dares us to love once more.

I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the death of the moment, perhaps.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

See how time makes all grief decay.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

What I have on my left calf is two skeletons; when you put them together, they form a heart, and it says, 'Love till Death.' That represents me and my wife - 'til death do us part.

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.

And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

My poverty taught me a lot. If someone dies, I cannot cry as I have seen so much hardship and death. I went to shoot even the day my dad had died. Death is reality.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.