Grieving Quotes

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

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.

Grief makes one hour ten.

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.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

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

It does grieve me to think there are people misunderstanding my heart on an issue.

What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

In life there is not time to grieve long.

Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

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.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

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

It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

... I think we grieve forever, but that goes for love too, fortunately for us all.

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

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

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

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.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.