Grieving Quotes - Page 21

• His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I, in some tiny way, come to matter to this enigmatic, hard, brilliant, obsessed man? I realised he'd come to matter to me. Good or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Breathing, Evil

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever”, Random House LLC

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• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Pain, Believe, Grief

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Perfect, Going Away

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• I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

  Larry McMurtry

  Thinking, Too Much, Sickness

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Evil, Sorrow

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• To expiate the pain of losing her firstborn son in the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan decided to cheer herself up by engaging in Stalinist agitprop outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, ... It's the strangest method of grieving I've seen since Paul Wellstone's funeral. Someone needs to teach these liberals how to mourn.

  Ann Coulter

  Cheer, Pain, War

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• A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

  John Vance Cheney

  Summer, Weed, Autumn

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• One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

  Phil Ochs

  Dawn, Politics, Gargoyles

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• I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Grief, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.309, Modern Library

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• If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Grief, Would Be, Pay

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• For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

  Michael Sheen

  Sexy, Reality, People

  "Michael Sheen Exclusive Interview BEAUTIFUL BOY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Heart, Soul

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• I only miss you when I'm breathing.

  Jason Derulo

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  "Breathing". Song by Jason Derulo, Future Story Album, September 27, 2011.

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• I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Dave Reichert

  Rest In Peace, War, Believe

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• Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

  Euripides

  Husband, Waste, Lost

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• You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.

  Jay McInerney

  Thinking, Practice, Encounters

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.52, Vintage

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• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks. . . . He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving? He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love,-what is passion but pining? But where is the man that can live without dining?

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Art, Book, Passion

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.

  David Richo

  Grief, Land, Feelings

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

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• Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.

  David Richo

  Memories, Good Memories, Evoke

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.260, Shambhala Publications

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• It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and inspite of his belief in Maut he is able to be happy. Inspite of believing in the Reckoning, he commits evil deeds. Inspite of believing in Taqdeer, he grieves. Inspite of observing the world with its changes, he feels contented with it. Inspite of believing in Jannat, he refrains from righteous deeds.

  Moses

  Wisdom, Believe, Islamic

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• For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Religious, Lying

  Stanley Coren (2008). “The Modern Dog: A Joyful Exploration of How We Live with Dogs Today”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Mother, Grief, Darkness

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• Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

  Isocrates

  Adversity, Evil, Life Is

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving.
  You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Grief, Punishment

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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