Death Grieving Quotes

When you are sorrowful, look again.

Khalil Gibran

Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Butterfly, Grieving

"'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Henri Nouwen

Life, Motivational, Friendship

"Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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Dreams are more powerful than facts.

Robert Fulghum

Hope, Dream, Powerful

Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Inspirational, Leadership, Being Happy

Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Sri Chinmoy

Healing, Heart, Thinking

"The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga".

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When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

William Shakespeare

Love, Sympathy, Death

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 17

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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Khalil Gibran

Death, Grieving, Bereavement

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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

Thornton Wilder

Death, Gratitude, Grief

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I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

Robert Browning

Learning, Grieving, Funeral

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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Mother Teresa

Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Change, Grief, Learning

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Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

Henri Nouwen

Friendship, Pain, True Friend

Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

Inspirational, Funny, Life

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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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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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Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

Elizabeth I

Grief, Weakness, Ends

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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

John Donne

Death, Peace, Grief

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions no. 17 (1624)

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Why bad things happen to good people

Harold S. Kushner

Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization". Book by Jim Clemmer (p. 84), 2003.

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One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Viktor E. Frankl

Freedom, Attitude, Positive Thinking

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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.

Khalil Gibran

Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Rossiter W. Raymond

Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

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

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