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  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

  Washington Irving

  Strength, Sad, Sympathy

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Mom, Mother, Time

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Prayer, Soul, Tangible

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.717, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Sad, Wise

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• Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Grief, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.251, Xist Publishing

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• How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

  Jodi Picoult

  Death, Heart, Loss

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.215, Penguin

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• Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

  Jodi Picoult

  Grief, Band, Layers

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.422, Simon and Schuster

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• Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

  James Martineau

  Sympathy, Memories, Grief

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.64

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• Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

  John Milton

  Men, Jewels, Treasure

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.101

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

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

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• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  Wallace Stevens

  Beauty, Mother, Dream

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.107, Icaria Editorial

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Washington Irving

  Grieving, Funeral, Solitude

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

  Patti Davis

  Life Lesson, Grief, Bed

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• Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

  Saul Alinsky

  Death, Grief, Believe

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• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Pain, Suffering

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Death, Trying, Comfort

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883). “Letters and Memorials...”

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• Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

  Iris Murdoch

  Love, Grief, Saying Goodbye

  Iris Murdoch (1984). “The Sacred and Profane Love Machine”, p.31, Penguin

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Death, Grieving, Profound

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Depression

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Memories, Children, Grief

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• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Death, Spiritual

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.304

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• They that love beyond the world
  cannot be separated by it.
  Death cannot kill what never dies.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Grief

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Earl A Grollman

  Love, Inspirational, Death

  Earl A. Grollman (2014). “Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love”, p.6, Beacon Press

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