Top 1200 Grief And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Look out, Death: I am coming.-Art thou not glad? what talks we'll have.-What memories of old battles.-Come, bring the bowl, Death; I am thirsty.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

As much sorrow and grief as came from 9/11, there have also come positives.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.

Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter --

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.

There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

I've learned a lot about grief, that it really is something that goes in cycles.