Grieving Quotes

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents. — Elizabeth McCracken

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving. — Michelle Moran

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn. — William C. Bryant

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

I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow. — Li Qingzhao

One smile relieves a heart that grieves. — Robert Graves

It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead. — Tacitus

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

Death is harder on those who are left behind. — Robert La Fosse

Heartbreak is life educating us. — George Bernard Shaw

Tears water our growth. — William Shakespeare

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. — Elizabeth Edwards

Listen. I don't know how or when

My grieving will end, but I'm always
Relearning how to be human again. — Sherman Alexie

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons. — Leslie Weatherhead

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. — Zach Braff

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve. — Judy Tatelbaum

Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating? — Karen White

Her death ... brought me as nothing else could do to know and end my jealousy of God. It saved her faith from assault. — Sheldon Vanauken

I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home. — Cindy Sheehan

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it. — John Keats

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ. — R.A. Torrey

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something. — Natalie Cole

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves. — Maximus The Confessor

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye. — Lord Byron

Grieving is a weakness-too human, too mired in compassion, and we can't repeat that mistake, can we? — Steven Dos Santos

Lord, I desire to live as one Who bears a blood-bought name, As one who fears but grieving Thee, And knows no other shame. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away
ere life hath lost its brightness? — Lady Flora Hastings

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16. — Peaches Geldof

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

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it. — Lauren Bowles

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

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Soren Kierkegaard

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. — Laozi

I'm grieving over what a jerk you are... — Maria Semple

Better one suffer than a nation grieve. — John Dryden

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. — Rita Rudner

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more. — Baha'u'llah

I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. — Jandy Nelson

Time heals nothing. It only brings other issues and tissues, and takes what is incurable or unacceptable out of the center of our attention. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. — Fanny Crosby

At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies. — James Van Praagh

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. — Cheryl Strayed

The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open. — A. Mani

So may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare

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

It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving. — Nathalie Himmelrich

No one should have to grieve alone ... — William Wendt

It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini

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

Perhaps it only applies in the States, where emotional optimism is a constitutional duty — Julian Barnes

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here. — Sarah McLachlan

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss. — Mark Twain

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

Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee. — Robert Burns

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal ... Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process. — Elin Nordegren

Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't. — Sue Grafton

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

She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been. — Kimberley Freeman

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

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard. — Victoria Alexander

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days. — Janet Morris

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle? — William Shakespeare

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow. — Pablo Neruda

I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better. — Joan Rivers

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

People don't finish grieving until they start talking about it. — Jen Nadol

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us — W.S. Merwin

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. — Walter Raleigh

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste. — Simon Blackburn

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

You seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come. — Pearl S. Buck

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

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight. — Hafez

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen. — Seneca The Younger

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why. — Richard Rohr

The good man does not grieve
that other people do not recognize his merits.
His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs. — Confucius

I took a fresh mug of coffee. Grilling grieving families always goes down better with caffeine. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate. — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. — Walt Disney Company

I hope you can find the healing power in grieving. — Mitch Albom

She helped me understand that grieving was a human process with known stages and unknown timetables. — Jay Giles

But perhaps it's that Grey is dead. It still feels like the moon fell out of the sky. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter. — Hadewijch

Attachment is the source of all suffering. — Gautama Buddha

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

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls. — Thomas S. Monson

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. — Simon Callow

Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on. — David Richo

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me. — Linda Ronstadt

sorrow not only twists the heart, but also dims the eyes. Only the very wise can see good in the earth when they are grieving. — Sue Harrison

That was the problem with grieving one child in a family with other children. In my despair over losing Riley, I'd lost my daughter too. — Leslie A. Gordon

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia — Jim Noel

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