Grieving Quotes - Page 13

• She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

  Martial

  Grief, Unseen, Sincerely

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• In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

  George Crabbe

  Men, Satire, Perceive

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.127

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• Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

  Bennie Thompson

  Doe, Answers, Fingers

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• Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

  John Dryden

  Suffering, Nations

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 416

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• I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

  Lord Byron

  Dream, Grief, Believe

  LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

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• Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Hate, Blessed

  St Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 5 (Part III, Second Section & Supplement)”, p.2992, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

  Mark Nepo

  Grief, Loss, Rising

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.384, Conari Press

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• You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Blessing, Worry

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1966). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Goodbye, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

  Aleister Crowley

  Heart, Eye

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.44, Weiser Books

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• I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me.

  Raymond Chandler

  Winter, Night, Long

  "The Big Sleep". Book by Raymond Chandler, ch. 3, 1939.

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• In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier. We all grieve alone.

  Alice Hoffman

  Losing Friends, Done, Easier

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Grief, Fall, People

  Rana Dasgupta (2011). “Solo”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?

  Melina Marchetta

  Persons

  Melina Marchetta (2006). “On The Jellicoe Road”, p.44, Penguin UK

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• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grief, Good Day, Mourning

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• It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Reading, Eye

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.158, University of Iowa Press

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• We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Fall, Heart

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

  Janet Morris

  Grief, Commitment, Fighting

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.93, Paradise Publishing

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• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

  Irving Howe

  Powerful, Mean, Reality

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• All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

  Frank O'Connor

  Gratitude, Sorry, Grief

  Frank O'Connor (1969). “A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories”

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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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• Five years from the date of the attack that changed our world, we've come back to remember the valor of those we lost-those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them. We have also come to be ever mindful of the courage of those who grieve for them, and the light that still lives in their hearts.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Powerful, Heart, Our World

  "Your World Today", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2006.

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• First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Grief

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.263, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.

  Hal Porter

  Uplifting, Weed, Adventure

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