Let No One Mourn Who Has Fallen Again and Again

Hither are 64 (Shhh! In that location are actually 63) quotes well-nigh grief, coping and life after loss. Although we love a expert grief quote, Litsa and I were irksome to join in on the quote-pic phenomenon.  The Internet just seemed plastered with inspirational platitudes pasted on pictures of sunsets and rainbows. Information technology all seemed so trite and reductive we decided not to add together to the racket.  Then we got over ourselves.   A skilful quote serves many purposes.  A quote helps us put our own thoughts and feelings into perspective, information technology allows us to apply the words of others to communicate or to convey a bulletin, and information technology helps united states to feel a sense of commonality when we find our feelings, experiences, and observations match those of another. Nosotros hope something here resonates with yous and feel gratuitous to steal and share any of these images with your grieving family and friends.

"The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with; Goose egg brings it all to life like an old mix record. Information technology does a improve job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue tin can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life."

~ Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Record

"To alive in hearts we leave behind is non to die."

~ Thomas Campbell

"When I think of expiry, and of tardily the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the thought that a day will dawn when I no longer exist among those living in this valley of foreign humors.

I can accept the idea of my own demise, but I am unable to accept the death of anyone else.

I notice it impossible to let a friend or relative become into that country to no render.

Atheism becomes my close companion, and acrimony follows in its wake.

I respond the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is here in my center and mind and memories.'"

~ Maya Angelou, When I Call up of Decease

"At the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them."

~ Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Reimer

"Do you not know that a homo is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

~ Terry Pratchett

"All the fine art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting become and holding on."

~ Havelock Ellis

"God gave us memory so that we might accept roses in December."

~ J.One thousand. Barrie

"It'south and then curious; One tin can resist tears and 'bear' very well in the hardest hours of grief. Just then someone makes yous a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses."

~ Colette

"There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so but give me a happy middle and a very happy start."

~ Shel Silverstein, Every Thing On It

"Should you lot shield the valleys from the windstorms, yous would never see the beauty of their canyons."

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart and yous'll never walk alone."

~ Rodgers and Hammerstein, Carousel

"On this bald hill the new year hones its edge.

Faceless and stake every bit china

The circular sky goes on minding its business.

Your absence is inconspicuous,

Nobody can tell what I lack."

~ Sylvia Plath, Parliament Hill Fields

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandpa said. A kid or a book or a painting or a house or a wall congenital of a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touches some way so your soul has somewhere to go when y'all dice, and when people look at that tree or that flower you lot planted, you're in that location."

~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"When nosotros have joy we crave to share; We remember them."

~ Sylvan Kamens & Rabbi Jack Riemer

"Make the most of your regrets; Never smother your sorrow, only tend and cherish it 'til it comes to accept a divide and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"I'll exist seeing you

In all the one-time familiar places

That this heart of mine embraces

All 24-hour interval through."

~ Billie Holiday, I'll Be Seeing Y'all

"One more 24-hour interval

1 more time

One more than sunset, maybe I'd exist satisfied

Only then once more

I know what it would exercise

Get out me wishing still, for one more twenty-four hours with you."

~ Diamond Rio

"Yous gave me a forever within the numbered days…"

~ John Green, The Mistake In Our Stars

"I would always await for clues to her in books and poems, I realized. I would always search for the echoes of the lost person, the scraps of words and breath, the silken ties that say, 'Expect: She existed.'"

~ Meghan O'Rourke, Story'southward End

"14 years.

My longest human relationship.

My only experience of maternal dear.

My constant companon.

My all-time friend.

Duck."

~ Sarah Silverman on her domestic dog, Duck

"Where yous used to be,

at that place is a hole in the world,

which I find myself constantly walking effectually in the daytime,

and falling in at dark.

I miss you like hell."

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Look closely and you will run into about everyone carrying numberless of cement on their shoulders.

That'south why information technology takes courage to get out of bed in the morning and climb into the solar day."

~ Edward Hirsch

"Losing my mother at such an early on historic period is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately fabricated me into the person I am today. I understand the journeying of life. I had to go through what I did to be here."

~ Mariska Hargity

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."

~ Clarence Budington Kelland

"No one ever told me that grief felt and then similar fear."

~ C.South. Lewis

"Ain't no shame in belongings on to grief… equally long every bit you brand room for other things too."

~ "Bubbles," The Wire

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit downward with Information technology as a lasting companion and go far a sharer in her thoughts."

~ George Eliot

"The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and autonomously: The secret anniversaries of the heart."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When a child dies, yous bury the child in your heart."

~ Korean Proverb

"If I die before you

which is all simply certain

and then in the moment

before you volition see me

become someone dead

in a transformation

as quick every bit a falling star'due south

I will cross over into you

and enquire you to conduct

not only your own memories

but mine too until you lot

too lie downwards and erase the states

both together into oblivion."

~ Galway Kinnell

"Information technology'southward coming on Christmas

They're cut downwards trees

They're putting upwardly reindeer

And singing songs of joy and peace

Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on."

~ Joni Mitchell

"Hope

Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,

Whispering 'Information technology will be happier'…"

~ Alfred Tennyson

"When our days become dreary with depression-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let usa remember that there is a artistic forcefulness in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform nighttime yesterdays into brilliant tomorrows."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"When you lot dice, information technology does non hateful that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how yous live, why y'all live, and in the manner in which you live."

~ Stuart Scott

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more than joy you tin comprise."

~ Khalil Gibran

"Grief sucks."

~ Anybody Ever

"It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and allow it pull you forward."

~ Patti Davis

"The healing power of even the well-nigh microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a wink precisely what you're talking almost because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated."

~ Cheryl Strayed

"What separates us from animals, what separates us from the anarchy, is our ability to mourn people we've never met."

~ David Levithan

"Someday soon, we all will be together

If the fates allow

Until and then,

We'll have to muddle through somehow."

"No human ever steps in the aforementioned river twice, for it Is non the same river and he is non the same human."

~ Heraclitus

"Next person that minimizes my grief is getting a swift boot to the shin."

"Well, every 1 can master a grief but he that has it."

~ William Shakespeare

"So when yous need her affect

And loving gaze

Gone only not forgotten

Is the perfect phrase

Smiling from a star

That she makes glow

Trust she's always there

Watching every bit yous grow

Discover her in the place

Where the lost things go."

~ The Place Where Lost Things Become, Mary Poppin Returns

"If there e'er comes a solar day where we can't exist together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever."

~ A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"The whole globe can get the enemy when y'all lose what you dearest."

~ Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlett Leaves

"Her absence is similar the sky, spread over everything."

~ C.Southward. Lewis, A Grief Observed

"I will not say: Exercise not week; For not all tears are evil."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Render of the King

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'go over' the loss of a loved one; you will acquire to alive with it. You volition heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You volition be whole over again just you will never be the same. Nor should you be the aforementioned nor would you desire to."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

"Requite the sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought center and bids it break."

~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"The vocal is ended, just the melody lingers on."

~ Irving Berlin

"When he shall dice,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine,

That all the earth will be in dearest with nighttime,

And pay no worship to the garish sun."

~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

~ Edgar Allan Poe

"Sometimes, but one personn is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."

~ Alphonse de Lamartine, Méditations Poétiques

"Love is really the only thing nosotros can possess, keep with us, and take with u.s.."

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"An abnormal reaction to an aberrant situation is normal behavior."

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Man'due south Search for Significant

"Decease ends a life, not a relationship."

~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"Just in that location was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of backbone, the backbone to endure."

~ Viktor E. Frankl, Human being'due south Search for Pregnant

"They that love beyond the globe cannot be separated by it. Expiry cannot impale what never dies."

~ William Penn

"Life has to end.

Love doesn't."

~ Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

"And once the storm is over you won't recall you lot how made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even exist certain, in fact, whether the storm is actually over. Simply one thing is certain. When y'all come out of the tempest you won't be the aforementioned person who walked in. That'southward what the storm's all virtually."

~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"What we one time enjoyed and deeply loved we tin never lose, for all that nosotros love deeply becomes part of the states."

~ Helen Keller

Feb 10, 2015

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