Cardinal Quotes

“We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.”
- Helen Keller

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
- Chuck Palahniuk

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
- Marcus Aurelius

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
- Leo F. Buscaglia

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life
not knowing what grief is.
- Frank O'Connor

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with our first great sorrow. Before we know what it is to have loved and lost, to despaired and have recovered hope.”
- George Elliot

"There's no way around grief and loss: you can doge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully come out the other side.  The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left."
- Johnny Cash

“Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.”
- Gail Caldwell