Grieving Quotes - Page 14

• Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Death, Women, Heart

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Decay

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Children, Sin, Absence

  Arthur W Pink (2013). “Practical Christianity”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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• Never is it the wish of `Abdu'l-Bahá to see any being hurt, nor will He make anyone to grieve; for man can receive no greater gift than this, that he rejoice another's heart. I beg of God that ye will be bringers of joy, even as are the angels in Heaven.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Hurt, Heart, Angel

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• Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Mistake, Self

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• It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Courage, Joy

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• My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

  Elin Nordegren

  Divorce, Giving, Focus

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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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• Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you planned: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterward 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

  Hands, Land, Gone Away

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song. In touching the pain of recent and long-held griefs, we come face to face with our genuine human vulnerability, with helplessness and hopelessness. These are the storm clouds of the heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Song, Prayer, Pain

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• Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without, so to speak, grieving the heart of God, because he sees that you do not honor him sufficiently with holy trust. Trust in him, I beg you, and you will have the fulfillment of what your heart desires.

  St. Vincent

  Heart, Free Your Mind, Choices

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• And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  People, Sick, House

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2002). “Middlesex: A Novel”, p.401, Macmillan

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• February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.

  Boris Pasternak

  Spring, Fall, Sadness

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• If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can't - if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guard, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone - well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want.

  Martha Whitmore Hickman

  Daughter, Football, Home

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• Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Good Night, Hurt, Morning

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• Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Grief, Mean

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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• A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

  David Richo

  Healing, Self, Doe

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Pain, Loneliness

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.105, Icaria Editorial

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• Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so do other animals, as Barbara King's poignant book illustrates in compelling detail. How Animals Grieve helps us to connect and to better understand the complex social lives of other animals and of ourselves.

  Gene Baur

  Kings, Book, Animal

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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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• There's always something in new technology that promotes anxiety on the one hand, but also grieving on the other. With the internet, I think we can remember a time when people said "I don't use email," or "I'm not going to get email." I once had to do a piece on people who had never used the internet and refused to start and I found three people. But when I talked to them, they had used it, at some point or another. It's almost impossible to stay off the internet entirely. We feel as though we didn't get to make a decision. There's this new dawn and we all have to embrace it.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Suicide, Thinking, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• So may I, blind fortune leading me,
  Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
  And die with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Missing, Risk, May

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

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• Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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