What is this website for?
- When you are very sad, when someone you love very much has died, sometimes it helps to know that others have felt the same way before you.
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- Those who are near me do not know
- Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance
- I will see that instant until I die
- I wondered that other men should live when he was dead
- Nobody knows the trouble I see
- Soon enough he would come once more into the world of light
- After great pain a formal feeling comes
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- Time is our friend as well as our enemy
- Surprised by joy
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- The war has driven a sword through my heart
- Thou hast here no abiding city
- I was so happy, happy at that point!
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- Where has he gone, my dearest son?
- I am in great sadness
- Turn your face to the sun
- Abide with me
- The first days of grief are not the worst
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Recent Posts
- Lament of the wife of Áed mac Ainmirech
- Gogol: What grief does not time bear away?
- Chekhov on wishing for death in a hopeless illness
- Riley: He is not dead. He is just away
- Derek Walcott: Half my friends are dead
- Old Irish: Cold is the wind
- Somerset Maugham: Have nothing to do with death
- Robert Browning: Fear death? -- I was ever a fighter, so -- one fight more!
- Vissi d'arte: Why, why, Lord?
- Steve Jobs: Everything falls away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important
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- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Jewish, Israeli, Hebrew, Yiddish
- Latin
- Latin American
- Life, Wisdom
- Middle Eastern
- Music
- Nature
- North and South American Indian
- On Death in a War or by Violence
- On Death of Someone Loved
- On Hope
- On One's Own Death
- On Pity
- On Suicide
- On the Death of a Child
- On the Death of a Friend
- On the Death of a Parent
- On the Death of a Sibling
- On the Death of a Spouse or Lover
- On the Death of an Animal
- On the Death of Someone Admired
- On the Loss of a Beloved Place
- On the Missing
- On Those Dying Young
- On Those Left Behind
- On Transience of All Things
- On Troubles
- Religion
- Religious and Spiritual Consolation
- Russian
- Scandinavian, Icelandic
- Science
- Small Nations
- Spanish
- Tibetan, Buddhist
- Welsh
