Grieving Quotes - Page 13

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.

Khaled Hosseini

Eye, Garden, Rose

Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.365, A&C Black

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They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

Ann Brashares

Dad, Choices, Said

Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.57, Random House

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The wise man looks back into the past, and does not grieve over what is far off, nor rejoice over what is near; for he knows that time is without end.

Laozi

Wise, Past, Men

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They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry pique, that, although our parents adored us and would do anything for us, they loved each other more. As far as I was concerned, that was the way it should be. Kids grow up, move on and find a love of their own. The empty nest shouldn't leave parents grieving. It should leave them ready and excited to get on with living their own adventure, which would, of course, include many visits to children and grandchildren.

Karen Marie Moning

Children, Growing Up, Moving

Karen Marie Moning (2009). “Dreamfever: Fever Series”, p.235, Delacorte Press

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His thumb stroked my cheek. My eyes half-closed. When he spoke next, it was very softly, his voice an almost-physical caress against my whole body. My flesh tightened like a harpstring. I swallowed hard against the wave of liquid heat. "How can I possibly be jealous when I know you spent your time grieving for me, Dante?

Lilith Saintcrow

Jealous, Eye, Voice

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Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Hurt, Pain, Grief

Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.163, Hachette UK

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For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things th

Walter Mason Camp

Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Sarcastic

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If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

Melina Marchetta

Paper, Pages, Faces

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Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.

Saint John Chrysostom

Spiritual, Humble, Giving

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Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

Steig Larsson

Jobs, Night, Thinking

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Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

Nizar Qabbani

Broken, Pieces, Sparrows

Nizar Qabbani, “The Epic Of Sadness”

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To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Heart, Silence, Spirit

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But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

Melina Marchetta

Selfish, Grief, People

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Melanie still grieves for Jared," she stated. I felt my head nod without willing the action. "You grieve for him." I closed my eyes. "The dreams continue?" "Every night," I mumbled. "Tell me about then." Her voice was soft, persuasive. "I don't like to talk about them." "I know. Try. It might help." "How? How will it help to tell you that I see his face every time I close my eyes? That I wake up and cry when he's not there? That the memories are so strong I can't separate hers from mine anymore?

Stephenie Meyer

Dream, Strong, Memories

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No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

Alethea Kontis

Broken Heart, Men, Silence

Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.

Lionel Shriver

Water, Chocolate, May

Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.2, Counterpoint Press

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But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Wife, Forever, Dry

Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one back home.

Paul Leautaud

Girl, Sex, Home

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Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want. Whether you are happy or not depends to some degree upon outsward circumstances, but mostly it depends how you choose to look at thing syourself, whether you measure what you have or what you have not.

Anne Perry

People, Degrees, Looks

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Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old. But when you live as long as I have, you get many more. I look nothing like I did when I was a wee thing of thirteen. You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

Catherynne M. Valente

Children, Long, Laughing

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You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Glenn Beck

Mother, Father, Capacity

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Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Francis Atterbury

Wise, Knowing, Benefits

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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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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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