Grieving Quotes - Page 12

• The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

  Mark Twain

  Knowing, Childhood, Ears

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.393, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Grieve not that men do not know you;
  grieve that you do not know men.

  Confucius

  Men, Know Me, Knows

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• The good man does not grieve
  that other people do not recognize his merits.
  His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

  Confucius

  Men, People, Anxiety

  Confucius (1964). “The Analects of Confucius”

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• Man-like is it to fall into sin,
  Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
  Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
  God-like is it all sin to leave.

  Friedrich von Logau

  Fall, Men, Sin

  "'Sin' ('From the Sinngedichte of Friedrich von Logau')". Translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Complete Poetical Works", www.bartleby.com. 1893.

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• Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

  Rumi

  Joy, Forever, Gone

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• All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that 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

  Lying, Grief, Years

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

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• If we cannot serve a person who we can see, how can we serve a God whom we cannot see? Some just have to have their own thing and be the “boss”. I grieve for these people who have become the King of their own tiny mound, when they could have been a Prince in a major organization.

  Phil Pringle

  Kings, Organization, People

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Two

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• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Comedy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

  Socrates

  Wise, Men, Departed

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• We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Pain, Loss, Reality

  Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Pain, Loss, Our Love

  Judy Tatelbaum (2009). “The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Hands, Feet

  'I had a dove and the sweet dove died' (written 1818)

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!

  John Keats

  Song, Sweet, Kissing

  'Ode on a Grecian Urn' (1820) st. 2

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• I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.

  Don Everly

  Brother, Wife, Mourning

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• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  Hadewijch

  Encounters, Fervent

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.93, Paulist Press

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

  Orson Scott Card

  Whole Life, Havens, Died

  "Alvin Journeyman". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1995.

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• The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

  Conrad Aiken

  Dream, Pain, Wall

  Conrad Aiken (1920). “The House of Dust: A Symphony”

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• What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

  Norbert Wiener

  Powerful, School, May

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

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• Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Sunshine, Ice, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 82), 1895.

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• In life there is not time to grieve long.

  T. S. Eliot

  Grief, Long

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Complete Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Zero, Children, Fall

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• Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Meaningful, Grief, Past

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• Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Grief, Real Friends

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• There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

  Lisa Belkin

  Children, Pain, Names

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