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Grieving Grief Quotes & Sayings

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You can't truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss. — Mandy Hale

Life when it ends is still alive, memories are the celebration of what it meant. Grieving is that part, our soul, that can't easily say goodbye — S.L. Northey

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. — Joan Rivers

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. — Johnny Rich

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night. — Donna Lynn Hope

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient. — Stieg Larsson

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. — Martial

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up. — Charles Stross

Why write wrong if the writing won't right the wrong? (90) — Sandra M. Gilbert

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving. — Tony Dungy

You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time. — Amy McNamara

Grieving the loss of a loved one - whether human or animal - is not only permissible, it is essential. — Linda Bender

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind. — Peter R. Pouncey

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists. — Antonio Porchia

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head," Winslow said. "Just for a moment. Then you'd know what all I can't find how to say. — Alan Heathcock

Great joys, like griefs, are silent. — Shackerley Marmion

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. — Jose N. Harris

It's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't. — Liz Fichera

Grieving is messy and horrible, and it takes too long, and everyone tells you what you need. — Katherine Lampe

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. — C.S. Lewis

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. — Nigella Lawson

Grieving a loss is accepting the hole. And sometimes the pain of accepting the hole is greater than the pain of the thing that once occupied the hole. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
[Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.] — Tacitus

Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead. — Lawren Leo

As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love. — Amy Eldon

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting. — Peter Heller

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

He wasn't crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been. — Sharon Sala

For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. — Elizabeth McCracken

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit. — Morgan Llywelyn

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere. — Petrarch

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. — Susanna Kearsley

Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore. — Dianna Hardy

Whatever might be taken from me need not leave me with a deficit in its wake. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable. — Sharon E. Rainey

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. — Emily Dickinson

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. — Sue Grafton

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap. — Thomas Golden Jr.

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are. — Mark Nepo

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone. — Gillian Flynn

In life there is not time to grieve long. — T. S. Eliot

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. — Asa Don Brown

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. — Robert Frost

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying. — Seth Adam Smith

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow. — John Wayne

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. — Emile M. Cioran

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. — Sarah Dessen

I am not alive if I am only a wispy memory in someone's fickle brain . . . — Brian M. Holmes

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole."
"In the Shape of Shep — Eileen Granfors

There is no shortcut to grieving. — Susan Sarandon

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving. — Alexandra Fuller

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand. — Grace Noll Crowell