Grieving Quotes

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

No one should have to grieve alone.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

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

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.

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead.

Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

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

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.

Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

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!

No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

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.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

I grieve for every death.

I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

You will reach a point where you can finally go for an hour, or a day, or a week without painful reminders of absence and emptiness. Look for new awakenings. Be open to rebirth.

Remind yourself of your reasons for living. You have a future worth enduring for, and you deserve to have a renewed sense of purpose and pleasure in your life.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

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

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.

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.

Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary.