Grieving Quotes
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Grieving Quotes & Sayings
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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I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.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
One smile relieves a heart that grieves.
— Robert Graves
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving. — William Shakespeare
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
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
Better one suffer than a nation grieve.
— John Dryden
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
In life there is not time to grieve long.
— T. S. Eliot
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
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