Mamacita says:

1.  It’s so curious: one can resist tears and “behave” very well in the hardest hours of grief.  but then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips form a drawer. . . and everything collapses.  –Collette

2.  Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you.  If they speak, you break down.  –Bede Jarrett

3.  While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates.  You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.  –Samuel Johnson

4.  Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.  –Shakespeare

5.  Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.  –Antonia Porchia

6.  Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.  –Jareb Teague

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

8.  No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.  –E.M. Cioran

9.  We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  –Kenji Miyazawa

10.  Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.  –from The Wonder Years

11.  If you’re going through hell, keep going.  –Winston Churchill (This is one of my favorite quotes!)

12.  The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.  –Arthur Schopenhauer

13.  There’s a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.  –Lou Reed

14.  Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  –Dan Rather

15.  You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.  –Jan Glidewell

16.  There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go. –Unknown

17.  Loss is nothing but change, and change is Nature’s delight.  –Marcus Aurelius

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

19.  Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.  –Jacques Prevert

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

21.  There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.  –Aeschylus

22.  We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal.  Otherwise, life is unbearable.  –Agate Nesaule

23.  Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.  — Amelia Burr

24.  If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.  –Anne Bradstreet

25.  There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.  Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.  –Carl Jung

26.  As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.  –Dorothy Parker

27.  There’s no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.  –Edith Wharton

28.  When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.  –Henri Nouwen

29.  The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.  Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?  –Kahlil Gibran

30.  History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.  –Maya Angelou

31.  The pain passes, but the beauty remains.  –Pierre Auguste Renoir

32.  In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life:  it goes on.  –Robert Frost

33.  . . . joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you. . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.  –Kahlil Gibran

34.  Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.  Do justly, now.  Love mercy, now.  Walk humbly, now.  You are not obligated to complete the work but neither are you free to abandon it.  –Talmud

35.  Poetry is about the grief.  Politics is about the grievance.  –Robert Frost

36.  Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.  –Blaise Pascal

37.  Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.  –William Faulkner

38.  Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.  –Unknown

39.  There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.  –Leon Blov

40.  Memory is a man’s real possession.  In nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor.  –Alexander Smith

41.  Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.  –Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka, and Toshihiro Kawabata

42.  The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  –Mark Twain

43.  People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive.  It is as though they were traveling abroad.  –Marcel Proust

44.  No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.  –Euripides

45.  I shall not die of a cold.  I shall die of having lived.  –Willa Cather

46.  Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.   For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.  –Albert Einstein

47.  Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.  –Erik H. Erikson

48.  We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future.  It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.  –Marcel Proust

49.  We understand Death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one we love.  –Madame de Staal

50.  The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.  –Mignon McLaughlin