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So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
Sep 29, 2025
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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!
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
Dreams are more powerful than facts.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
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.
When you are sorrowful, look again.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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.
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.
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.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
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.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The only cure for grief is action.
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.
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...that is a friend who cares.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
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.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.