Grieving Quotes - Page 18

• The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Men, Opposites

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.32, Library of Alexandria

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• Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.

  James Patterson

  Taken, Dies

  James Patterson (2017). “Kiss the Girls: (Alex Cross 2)”, p.255, Random House

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• Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Tears, Faces

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.549

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• 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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• 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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• I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

  Michelle Moran

  Stills

  Michelle Moran (2011). “Madame Tussaud”, p.277, Hachette UK

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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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• So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rain, Eye, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Morning, Hate, Stupid

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Desolation Angels”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and pity, and wonder. If we receive news, that a hundred thousand dollars had been left them by some one dying, we should be thrown into an ecstasy of rejoicing; but when they have gone home to God, we stand, and mourn, and pine, and wonder at the mystery of Providence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Dying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 52, 1895.

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• What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Heart, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Life and Death of King Richard II”, p.81

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• To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

  Tryon Edwards

  Sympathy, Grief, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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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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• Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

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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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• That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

  Gayle Forman

  Competition, Never Expect

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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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• But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

  Eugene Field

  Book, Passion, Men

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field Vol. VII: The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship You, Body, Allure

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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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• 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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