Grief

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Euripides

They lived and laughed and loved and left.

James Joyce

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Sophocles

Between grief and nothing I will take grief.

William Faulkner

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

Walt Whitman

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C.S. Lewis

It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.

Unknown (commonly attrib. Anonymous)

Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

Walt Whitman

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

J.M. Barrie

Because I could not stop for Death– He kindly stopped for me

Emily Dickinson

Loss is nothing else than change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Winnie the Pooh

Who has not heard them? They say: We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning!

Archibald MacLeish

A whole human life is just a heartbeat here in Heaven. Then we’ll all be together forever.

Chris Nielsen

I answer the question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with here in my heart and mind and memories.

Maya Angelou

There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don’t now and never did lie to each other.

Pablo Neruda

Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever, because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave.

A.A. Milne

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

Thomas Moore

I have little desire to spend my few remaining years grieving for the loss of old friends. Or their sons.

Alfred

You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery: enjoy it, embrace it, discard it... and proceed.

Claire Colburn

Some day I’ll join him right there, but now he’s gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose

Pablo Neruda

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won

Walt Whitman

There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don't now and never did lie to each other. A Dog Has Died

Pablo Neruda

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow however turns out to be not a state but a process.

C.S. Lewis

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,--not dead, but gone before, He gathers round him.

Samuel Rogers

Some day I'll join him right there, but now he's gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose A Dog Has Died

Pablo Neruda

And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. Oh breathe not his Name.

Thomas Moore

I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.

Homer

I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days. All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

Charles Lamb

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Hebrew Psalms, 23:4

On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side, orphans; on that, children; on this side, captives; on that, free men.

Henry Ward Beecher

You know, when your mother died, a thousand people said a thousand stupid things to me and I just wanted one of them to give me a reason not to die.

Dr. Andrew Brown

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

Sarah