Assurance Quote by Saint Augustine

We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.”

— Arianna Huffington

“Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die. If self-interests were the primary source of meaning…

— Atul Gawande

One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair…

— Fay Weldon

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The experience of losing a loved one impels us toward a deeper understanding of life. Everyone fears and is saddened by death. That is…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about…

— Immanuel Kant

To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for.…

— Prentice Mulford

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss…

— Gerald Brenan

hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for…

— Josephine Hart

One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits…

— Al-Ghazali