Grieving Quotes & Sayings
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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia —
Jim Noel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attachment is the source of all suffering. —
Gautama Buddha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Better one suffer than a nation grieve. —
John Dryden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. —
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
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't. —
Sue Grafton