All who have been touched by beauty are
touched by sorrow at its passing
Louise Cordana

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable;
we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
Hubert H. Humphrey

For what is once given cannot be taken,
except from the eye and the touch of the hand.
Polly Toland

Don't cry because it's over,
Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss

A real friend is one who walks in
When the rest of the world walks out.
Widely attributed to Walter Winchell

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me learn from you, love you, savor you, bless you before you depart.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so.
One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow,
or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky,
and want more than all the world for your return.
Mary Jean Irion

Death leaves a heartache
no one can heal,
Love leaves a memory
no one can steal.
Found on a headstone in Ireland

I am here.
Let's heal together.
A friend

Tears are the silent language of grief
Voltaire

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it
Turkish Proverb

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble
Moliere

As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.
Sascha

The passage of time alone does not cause our grief to end,
but its softening touch helps us to survive
Wayne Loder

A friend is one who knows you as you are...
Understands where you've been...
Accepts who you've become
And still gently invites you to grow.
Author unknown

Grief is like a long valley, a winding
valley where any bend may reveal
a totally new landscape.
From "A Grief Observed"
by C. S. Lewis

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

An important way to cope with grief
is having an outlet, be it interpersonal, be it artistic,
that will allow you to not have to contain your grief,
but will give you an opportunity to express it,
to externalize it to some degree.
R. Benyamin Cirlin, grief counselor

Wounds do not heal without time and attention.
Yet, too many of us feel that we don't have the right
to take the time to heal from emotional and physical wounds.
From Judy Tatelbaum's "Courage to Grieve"

When I grieve, when I stand by others as they grieve, even in the midst of seemingly unbearable sorrow, grief becomes a way to honor life - a way to cling to every fleeting, precious moment of joy.
Cortney Davis, nurse practitioner

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it's never gone.
Rose Kennedy

In this universe nothing is ever wholly lost. That which is excellent remains forever a part of this universe. Human hearts are dust. But the love which moves the human heart, abides to bless the last generation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grief makes one hour ten
William Shakespeare

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen,
nor touched, but are felt in the heart
Helen Keller

A new year brings time to reflect
on the children we love,
those who remain with us
and those for whom we grieve
Wayne Loder

Friendship doubles our joy
and divides our grief
Swedish Proverb

We quickly find there are no words to describe the experience of losing a child.
For those who have not lost a child, no explanation will do.
For those who have, no explanation is necessary.
Mary Lingle

You don't heal from the loss of a loved one because time passes;
You heal because of what you do with the time.
Carol Crandall

Sorrow is like a precious treasure,
shown only to friends
African Proverb

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all
differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every one can master a grief
but he that has it
William Shakespeare

One often calms one's grief
by recounting it
Pierre Corneille