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• Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Grief, Love You, Grieving

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1902). “Complete works”

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• But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

  Harpo Marx

  Way, Lost, Irreplaceable

  Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.432, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

  Scott Spencer

  Regret, People, Path

  Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Holiness, Remains

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• It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sorrow, Display

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• We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.

  George W. Bush

  Grief, Humor, Angel

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
  To mourn, and murmur and repine,
  To see the wicked placed on high,
  In pride and robes of honor shine.
  But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
  Thy sanctuary taught me so,
  On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
  And fiery billows roll below.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Power, Rocks

  Thomas Hastings, Isaac Watts, William Patton (1836). “The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources”, p.127

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• Scripture says: "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." I call on every American family and the family of America to observe a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, honoring the memory of the thousands of victims of these brutal attacks and comforting those who lost loved ones. We will persevere through this national tragedy and personal loss. In time, we will find healing and recovery; and, in the face of all this evil, we remain strong and united, "one Nation under God."

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Memories

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• Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Song, Hurt, Laughter

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• The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Men, Evil

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• Don't mourn, Organise

  Joe Hill

  Revolutionary

  "Labor Day and the spirit of Joe Hill" by Clancy Sigal, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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• Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

  Mother Jones

  Fighting, Hell

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• Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Men, Rejoice, Died

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• Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

  Steven Erikson

  Grief, Break Through, Effort

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• We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.

  Indira Gandhi

  Men, Personality, Inspire

  Indira Gandhi (1975). “Indira Gandhi speaks on democracy, socialism, and Third World nonalignment”, Taplinger Publishing Company

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• Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Nuts, Feet

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• Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Evil, Girlhood

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.280, Jazzybee Verlag

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• But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Determination, Home

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• Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest times are before us and the world is yet to see the noblest work of this old earth in the men that are to be.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Monday, Men, Age

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Letting Go, Pain, Grief

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• I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

  Elizabeth McGovern

  Art, Writing, Receiving

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

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• Lord Jesus, bring comfort to all those who mourn and peace of heart to those under pressure and tension, in Jesus Christ's name

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Heart, Names

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• To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of pitying yourself, you should be thinking, "O ye who are left on this desolate shore still to mourn and deplore, it is I who pity you." Death will not give you any trouble if you have a clear conscience; and if you go with this thought: "Lord, I am in Thy hands."

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Thinking, Hands

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• He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Land, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.182, Bantam Classics

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