Death and Grieving

Below is an article about how I have used art healing to help me deal with the loss of someone I loved very much. If you would like to do some art healing around death, and would like to use some angels in your artwork, feel free to download some of my artwork from the link below. This artwork is copyrighted and for your own personal use only. Also listed below are many quotes on death and grieving.

Using healing arts to deal with death and grieving

One of the hardest things i've had to deal in life was grieving the death of my first love when I was 24 years old. He was the first man I was ever in love with, my best friend, my mentor, and my savior in the sense that he gave me a belief in myself that I hadn't had until then.... To view full article click on the link below.

"Working with art to deal with death and grieving"

Death and Grieving Quotes

Quotes and funeral poems to use in art healing:

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.- Raymond Moody

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. - John Taylor

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good. - William Mitford

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.- Rossiter Worthington Raymond

Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. - Walter Scott

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. - Kahlil Gibran

Now comes the mystery. - Henry Ward Beecher

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain. - Joyce Cary

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.- Pierre Corneille

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.- Thomas Campbell

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this. - Hugh Hamilton

The angels are always near to those who are grieving , to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. - Eileen Elias Freeman

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.- Al-Ghazali

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.- Margery Allingham

People living deeply have no fear of death.- Anais Nin

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. - Kahlil Gibran

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

God's finger touched him, and he slept. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane,I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.- unknown

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.- Pablo Picasso Quotes

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.- Unknown

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little starsAnd he will make the face of heav'n so fine- William Shakespeare

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.- William Penn

Every mortal loss is an immortal gain.- William Blake

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. - From a headstone in Ireland

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

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