Quotes and Sayings About Grieving
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
-- A. A. Milne -
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 -
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 -
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 -
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
-- Aleister Crowley -
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 -
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)
-- Anne Lamott -
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 can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
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 -
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 -
Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.
-- Antonio Porchia -
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 -
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 -
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
-- Bede Jarrett -
Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives
-- Bennie Thompson -
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 -
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 -
When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
-- Billy Sunday