Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

I can't go on. I'll go on.

W. S. Merwin

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

W. H. Auden

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

Walt Whitman

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Sarah Dessen

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

Waylon Jennings

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

Washington Irving

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

William C. Bryant

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

Thomas Lynch

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.

Yiddish Proverb

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral

Woody Allen

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

Valerie Harper

Don’t go to the funeral until the day of the funeral - live this day,

Vladimir Lenin

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

Salma Hayek

What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.

Wayne Dyer

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Rodney Atkins

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Zhuangzi

Paraphrased: When Chuang Tzu was about to die, his disciples began planning a splendid funeral. However some disciples expressed concern that given a particular arrangement, birds and kites would eat his remains. Chuang Tzu replied, "Well, above ground I shall be eaten by crows and kites, below it by ants and worms. What do you have against birds?

Zora Neale Hurston

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Zora Neale Hurston

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

William Boyd

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.

C. S. Lewis

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Daniel Handler

If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it.

Anne Fadiman

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

Suzanne Collins

That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently.

Francine Prose

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.