“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”
John Adams
“A mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joy found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
Mark Twain
“The ache of grief is always there, but the emptiness will lift one day. Their life to us the greatest gift, and only by living can it be repaid.”
Jill Hanna
“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”
David Harkins
“MenCan counsel and speak comfort to that griefWhich they themselves not feel.”
William Shakespeare
“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.”
“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”
Leon Bloy
