Grief is a species of idleness samuel

Grief is a species of idleness. ~Samuel JohnsonCUL

Grieving is a necessary passage and difficult

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow – it is not a permanent rest stop. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Come ye disconsolate whereer you languish come

Come, ye disconsolate, where’er you languish,
Come at the shrine of God fervently kneel;
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish?
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~Thomas Moore, c.1813, published in Sacred Songs, 1816

Sorrow makes us all children again

Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing. ~Ralph Waldo EmersonCUL

The sorrow which has no vent in

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley

In my lucias absence life hangs upon

In my Lucia’s absence
Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden;
I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear,
And grief, and rage and love rise up at once,
And with variety of pain distract me.
~Joseph Addison

Sorrow you can hold however desolating if

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down. ~Bede JarrettCUL

In the night of death hope sees

In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll

Memory is a way of holding onto

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years