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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (top)
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus


Unknown Author (top)
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
- Unknown Author


Sir Winston Churchill (top)
If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill


E.M. Cioran (top)
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
- E.M. Cioran


Colette (top)
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you 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


George Eliot (top)
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.
- George Eliot


Ralph Waldo Emerson (top)
We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Kahlil Gibran (top)
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.
- Kahlil Gibran


Robert Greene Ingersoll (top)
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert Greene Ingersoll


Bede Jarrett (top)
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
- Bede Jarrett


Samuel Johnson (top)
Grief is a species of idleness.
- Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson


Kenji Miyazawa (top)
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Kenji Miyazawa


Moliere (top)
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
- Moliere


Antonio Porchia (top)
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
- Antonio Porchia


Jacques Prévert (top)
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
- Jacques Prévert


Dan Rather (top)
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
- Dan Rather


Lou Reed (top)
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
- Lou Reed


William Shakespeare (top)
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
- William Shakespeare


John Taylor (top)
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
- John Taylor