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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. -- Wendell Berry
The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. -- Oliver Gaspirtz
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. -- Mary Shelley
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. -- Mary Shelley
The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. -- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. -- Dean Inge
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. -- William Shatner
Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events. -- Thomas Lynch
You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then. -- John Lydon
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -- Robert Fulghum
As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons. -- Mark Billingham
I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. -- Mary Schmich
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. -- Emmylou Harris
As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death. -- Sam Harris
Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. -- Jennifer Armintrout
I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. -- Tori Amos
Youth knows no remedy for grief but death. -- Winifred Holtby
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. -- Margaret Deland
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. -- Richard Bach
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life. -- Edgar Morin
I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life. -- James Van Praagh
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. -- Esther Hicks
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. -- Walter Russell
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. -- Rachel Caine
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. -- Jim Bishop
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. -- Dean Inge
Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair -- Pope Benedict XVI
I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away. -- George Moses Horton
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. -- Rumi

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