Sunday, November 25, 2012

Death, Grief, and Hope

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
 -- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
 -- George Eliot

"Our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
 -- St. Augustine

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
 -- Helen Keller

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
 -- Leo Tolstoy

"These are called tears. They come when we are so sad, so soul sick, it’s as if our hearts are so full of pain there’s no place else for it to go."
 -- Taretha from "Warcraft, Lord of the Clans"

"I will not say "Do not weep", for not all tears are an evil."
 -- Gandalf

"Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal."
 -- Victor Hugo

"But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer..."
 -- Samwise Gamgee

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