Grief Quotes - Page 32

• To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

  Tryon Edwards

  Sympathy, Grieving, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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• We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

  Gerald Brenan

  Missing, Absence, Ends

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• When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Sadness, Mean, Grieving

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• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Winter, Apology

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• It is the Christmas time:
  And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth,
  In glorious grief and solemn mirth,
  The shining angels climb.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Christmas, Angel, Shining

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “A Hymn For Christmas Morning”

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• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Cancer, Moving Forward

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.67, BookBaby

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• Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thinking Of You, Yoga, Self

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• Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

  Anton Chekhov

  Pain, Serenity, Age

  Letter to K.S. Barantsevich, March 3, 1888.

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• I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

  Sara Gilbert

  Pain, Love Is, Joy

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• Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

  George Crabbe

  Strong, Passion, Mind

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8

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• Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Hope, Children, Believe

  "Parenting for Everyone". Book by Simon Soloveychik, 1989.

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• Sweetheart, when you walk my way,
  Be it dark or be it day;
  Dreary winter, fairy May,
  I shall know and greet you.
  For each day of grief or grace
  Brings you nearer my embrace;
  Love hath fashioned your dear face,
  I shall know you when I meet you.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Life, Dark, Winter

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• The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Cancer, Suffering

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Taken

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• Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

  Pema Chodron

  Healing, Compassion, Joy

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Character

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• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Our World, Skills

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• There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

  Elias Canetti

  Atheist, Fate, Would Be

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• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?

  Aberjhani

  Fighting, Destiny, Justice

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Past, Self

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• Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Lost, Lifts

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Adversity, Water

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• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Poor

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

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• The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Men, Parent

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• There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

  Marcel Proust

  Dust, Leaving, Sorrow

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2508, Jester House Publishing

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