Best Grief Wisdom

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The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others… — P.J. O'Rourke
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the… — Maria von Trapp
What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love? — Gwen Harwood
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. — Ellen Glasgow
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. — Stevie Smith
Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door. — Unknown Author
Death is a door life opens. — Adela Rogers St. Johns
Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall. — Nancy Byrd Turner
There is no Death,/What seems so is transition. — Marie Corelli
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. — Harriet Martineau
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living. — Margaret Laurence
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the… — Al Capone
Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability… — Unknown Author
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early… — Ursula K. Le Guin
It is in the darkness that one finds the light. — Meister Eckhart
It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. — James Martineau
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. — Debbie Ford
Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a… — Mark Nepo
No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air. — Charles Eisenstein
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that… — Rumi
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled… — Stephen Levine
Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence. — Donald Hall
The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty… — Dean Koontz
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. — Kelsey Grammer

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