Grieving Quotes - Page 10

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

  Lauren Bowles

  Pain, Loss, Sitting

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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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• I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.

  Marie Lu

  Love You, Heart, Light

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• Grieve not that I die young.
  Is it not well to pass away
  ere life hath lost its brightness?

  Lady Flora Hastings

  Sad, Passing Away, Brightness

  Swan Song

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.

  David Toop

  Daughter, Children, Years

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

  Mason Cooley

  Jealousy, Envy, Rage

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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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• When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.

  Michael J. Fox

  Space, Denial, World

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

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Forever

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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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• 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.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Alone Time, Passage Of Time

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Anchor

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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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• O the green things growing, the green things growing,
  The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
  I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
  Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Sweet, Spring, Happy Life

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Green Things Growing”

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