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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
The only cure for grief is action.
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
From the end spring new beginnings.
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
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.
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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