Grieving Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

  Cesare Pavese

  Girl, Stupid, Loss

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.105, Transaction Publishers

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• 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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• Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

  Aesop

  Lying, Gold, Use

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.30, Aesop

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• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Dark, Mirrors

  1851 Twice- Told Tales,'The Haunted Mind'.

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• A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before?

  Wang Wei

  Time, Wall, Home

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• In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

  Byron Katie

  Beautiful, Mistake, Fall

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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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• 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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• When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love, a love which is not simply a recollection of a bygone past but a living force which sustains us in the present. Through memory, love transcends the limits of time and offers hope at any moment of our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Memories, Dark, Past

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Courage, Joy

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