Grieving Quotes

Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

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.

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a tremendous loss. And we all have to rally around that piece of it.

The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

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.

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.

It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

With patience bear what pains you have deserved, Grieve, if you will, over what's unmerited.

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

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.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?

Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show