Grieving Quotes - Page 22

• Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

  Cesar Millan

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Art, Integrity, Healing

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• The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opposites, Addiction, Mind

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

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• A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Mankind is an unco squad And muckle he may grieve thee.

  Robert Burns

  Squad, May, Thee

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• The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

  Philippe Aries

  Tears, Culture, Denial

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• There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.

  Joe Biden

  Daughter, Prayer, Husband

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• Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

  Thomas Golden, Jr.

  Grief, Smell, Bigs

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• I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

  Li Qingzhao

  Life And Death, Sorrow, Weight

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• In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  World, Littles

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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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• I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Given, Feels

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The square deal, 1901-1905”

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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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• 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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• During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Real

  "Yep, Obama Said the N-Word. Here Are the Other Candid Things He Said" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 22, 2015.

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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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• Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon", p. 109, 1949.

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