Grief Quotes - Page 14

• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Order, Needs, Attention

  Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

  Christian McEwen

  Childhood, Feelings, Events

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• They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

  John Ford

  Heart, Cutting, Silent

  John Ford, Terence John Bew Spencer (1980). “The Broken Heart”, p.34, Manchester University Press

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• Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

  Zhang Zai

  Blessing, Anxiety, Heaven

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• Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

  George W. Bush

  Forgiveness, Remembrance, Hatred

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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• Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Grieving, Darkness

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• Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grieving, Long, Healthy

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• We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.

  George Vaillant

  Happiness, Pain, Farewell

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• Grief is love not wanting to let go.

  Earl A Grollman

  Letting Go

  Earl A. Grollman (2015). “Living with Loss, Healing with Hope: A Jewish Perspective”, p.5, Beacon Press

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• Laugh and a moment will soon arrive when you cry.

  Kedar Joshi

  Laughter, Laughing, Cry

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

  Ovid

  Tears, Satisfaction, Pleasure

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• Most people don't ever want to use a gun to protect themselves - that's the last thing they want to do - but if you know how and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they've got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief.

  Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

  Running, Gun, People

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• When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Heart, Mind

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• The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

  Unknown

  Believe, Reading, Sorrow

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• That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Stars, Pain

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

  Stephen Levine

  Spiritual, Loss, World

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

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• They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Boredom, Woe, Fame

  1848 Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems,'The Island of the Scots', stanza12.

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• Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.

  Janet Morris

  Commitment, Hands, Matter

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• The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.

  Joey Green

  Life, Pain, Joy

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• First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Grieving

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.263, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Dad, Missing

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• Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Despair, Sowing

  "Thousands join pope on Youth Day", www.cnn.com. August 21, 2005.

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• There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Memories, Reading

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• When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

  Anton Chekhov

  Kindness, Character, Giving

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