Lynn Caine famous quotes

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.
-- Lynn Caine

#Sad #Grieving #Littles

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.
-- Lynn Caine

#Beach #Husband #Tunnels

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.
-- Lynn Caine

#Mean #Long #Hurtful

If the door is locked, try the window.
-- Lynn Caine

#Creativity #Doors #Trying

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.
-- Lynn Caine

#Children #Father #Men

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Grief is a process, not a state.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.