Grieving famous quotes

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
-- A. A. Milne

#Inspirational #Thinking #Grieving

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
-- A. A. Milne

#Friendship #Boys #Grieving

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.
-- Abolqasem Ferdowsi

#Wise #Men #Grieving

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Heart #Grieving #Silence

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
-- Aleister Crowley

#Heart #Eye #Grieving

No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.
-- Alethea Kontis

#Broken Heart #Grieving #Men

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

#Grief #Grieving #Littles

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

#Death #Grieving #Memorial

Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity?
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Heart #Grieving #Eden

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Past #Grieving #Punishment

DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Grieving #Glasses #Aquariums

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
-- Ann Brashares

#Dad #Grieving #Choices

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Heart #Grieving #Doe

As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.
-- Anna Bligh

#Grieving #People #Community

Grief is a process, not a state.
-- Anne Grant

#Grief #Grieving #States

All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that only grieving can heal grief. The passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
-- Anne Lamott

#Lying #Grief #Grieving

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
-- Anne Lamott

#Buddhist #Love You #Grieving

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.
-- Anne Lamott

#Grief #Grieving #Alone Time

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Grief #Grieving #Losing Someone

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Death #Grief #Grieving

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.
-- Anne Perry

#Grieving #People #Degrees

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

#Men #Grieving #Doe

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
-- Aristophanes

#Men #Grieving #Hands

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.
-- Arthur Golden

#Grief #Grieving #One Day

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
-- Arthur W. Pink

#Children #Grieving #Sin

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
-- Bede Jarrett

#Grieving #Sorrow #Speak

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives
-- Bennie Thompson

#Grieving #Answers #Doe

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.
-- Betty Smith

#Grieving #Light #Rivers

All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.
-- Bill Crawford

#Dream #Loss #Grieving

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
-- Billy Sunday

#Sports #Christian #Grieving

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.
-- Bob Hicok

#Grieving #Machines #Ears

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Grief #Grieving #Sky

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Happiness #Pain #Grieving

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

#Grief #Grieving #Ideas

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Grief #Healing #Grieving

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.
-- Candy Lightner

#Grief #Grieving #Talking

I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now.
-- Catherine Marshall

#Spiritual #Reality #Grieving

Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Children #Grieving #Long

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!
-- Charles Dickens

#Loss #Grieving #Depth

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
-- Charles Frohman

#Beautiful #Adventure #Grieving

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
-- Charlotte Rampling

#Grieving #Taught #Difficult

Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
-- Christina Rossetti

#Grieving #Hands #Land

Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.
-- Christopher Pike

#Believe #Book #Grieving

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.
-- Clare Bowen

#Grieving #People #Brave

She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
-- Colum McCann

#Tired #Grieving #Heaven

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Mother #Grieving #Circles

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.
-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Reality #Grieving #Important

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways--either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.
-- Dalai Lama

#Real #Fall #Grieving

This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation.
-- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#Autumn #Blessing #Grieving

Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to master.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Pain #Loneliness #Grieving

A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.
-- David Richo

#Healing #Grieving #Self

In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.
-- David Richo

#Grief #Grieving #Land

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

#Memories #Grieving #Good Memories

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.
-- David Sedaris

#Technology #Grieving #Tree

In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.
-- David Walker

#Home #Grieving #Usa

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.
-- Devendra Banhart

#Grieving #Leaving #Crow

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.
-- Didi

#Fall #Grieving #Ideas

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Mean #Thinking #Grieving

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.
-- Don Everly

#Brother #Grieving #Wife

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?
-- Du Fu

#Travel #Grieving #Ancient

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

#Grief #Grieving #Survivor

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
-- Edward Irving

#Respect #Heart #Grieving

Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
-- Edwin Markham

#Heart #Grieving #Joy

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have... The deep capacity to weep for the loss of a loved one and to continue to treasure the memory of that loss is one of our noblest human traits.
-- Edwin S. Shneidman

#Memories #Loss #Grieving

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Grieving #Silence #Self Respect

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

#Divorce #Grieving #Giving

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Butterfly #Grieving

The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Loss #Reality #Grieving

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Pain #Grieving #Forever

Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Hurt #Pain #Grieving

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Grief #Grieving #Pay

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
-- Elizabeth Edwards

#Children #Thinking #Grieving

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

#Heart #Grieving #Years

I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.
-- Elizabeth I

#Hate #Lying #Grieving

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

#Grief #Grieving #Tragedy

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

#Grief #Grieving #Use

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 #Eye #Grieving

You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.
-- Emmylou Harris

#Grieving #Color #People

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
-- Erich Fromm

#Grief #Grieving #Bereavement

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.
-- Esther Perel

#Grieving #Two #People

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
-- Euripides

#Inspirational #Grief #Grieving

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Rain #Thinking #Grieving

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

#Angel #Grieving #Echoes

A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!
-- Farid al-Din Attar

#Kings #Grieving #Men

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
-- Francis Atterbury

#Wise #Grieving #Knowing

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
-- Franz Kafka

#Suicide #Book #Grieving

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.
-- Fred Rogers

#Grief #Sadness #Grieving

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
-- Frederick William Robertson

#Grieving #Sin #Repentance

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.
-- Friedrich von Logau

#Fall #Men #Grieving

How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?
-- G. Campbell Morgan

#Heart #Grieving

Heartbreak is life educating us.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Grieving

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.
-- George Crabbe

#Men #Grieving #Satire

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
-- George R. R. Martin

#Character #Grieving #Care

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?
-- George R. R. Martin

#Book #Character #Grieving

Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.
-- George Vaillant

#Lost Love #Recovery #Grieving

Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."
-- George W. Bush

#Prayer #Children #Grieving

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
-- Gloria Naylor

#Life #Believe #Grieving

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

#Grieving #Hands #Sorrow

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay

#Sorry #Grieving #I Am Sorry

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

#Grieving #Encounters