Grieving Quotes - Page 10

• For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Memories, Twilight

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• 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.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Autumn, Blessing, Red Leaves

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet LXIX: Autumn Idleness”

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• My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grief, Joy

  William Shakespeare, Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1866). “Shakspeare's Sonnets never before interpreted: his private friends identified: together with a recovered likeness of himself. By G. Massey”, p.177

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• 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.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Lying, People, Adoption

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• Commit whatever grieves thee into the gracious hands of Him who never leaves thee, who heav'n and earth commands. Who points the clouds their courses, Whom winds and waves obey, He will direct thy footsteps and find for thee a way.

  Paul Gerhardt

  Clouds, Hands, Wind

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• I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

  Raymond Chandler

  Winter, Long, Mind

  The Big Sleep ch. 3 (1939)

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• The deep pain that is felt
  at the death of every friendly soul
  arises from the feeling that there is
  in every individual something
  which is inexpressible,
  peculiar to him alone,
  and is, therefore,
  absolutely and irretrievably lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Pain

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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

  W. S. Merwin

  Heaven, Doe

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• 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.

  Walter Raleigh

  Comfort, Use, May

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• There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

  Leon Bloy

  Death, Grief, Heart

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

  Ovid

  Pain, Punishment, Bears

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• 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.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Needs, Austria, May

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• What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Grief, Struggle, Ghetto

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• The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.

  William Morris Davis

  Book, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sorry, Pain, Love You

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.110, Baen Books

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• Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

  Mason Cooley

  Jealousy, Envy, Rage

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• What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

  Henry Adams

  Heart, Laughing, Suffering

  Henry Adams, Jacob Claver Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1886-1892”

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

  P. D. James

  Loss, Tragedy, Lasts

  P. D. James (2008). “Original Sin”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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

  Horace

  Grief, Wish, Firsts

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, v. 102, c. 19 BC.

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Forever

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• Yet if you should forget me for a while
  And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
  For if the darkness and corruption leave
  A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
  Better by far you should forget and smile
  Than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Mourning, Darkness, Remember

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• 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.

  Richard Whately

  Anger, Done, Made

  Richard Whately (1858). “Bacon's Essays”, p.563

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• I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for a time, and then I was changed ... I felt there was no ease or comfort for me except faith, hope and love, and truly I felt very little of this. And then presently God gave me again comfort and rest for my soul ... And then again I felt the pain, and then afterwards the delight and joy, now the one and now the other, again and again, I suppose about twenty times.

  Julian of Norwich

  Pain, Joy, Soul

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• God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

  Billy Graham

  Heartache, Want, His Love

  "Pilgrim’s Progress: Billy Graham On Death, Dying And Faith". Interview with Janet Kinosian, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2010.

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