Grieving Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

  Simon Callow

  Cheer, Children, Parent

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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 didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

  Peaches Geldof

  Mother

  "Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof, found dead at 25", www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2014.

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• To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Taught, Difficult, Know How

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Suffering, Goes On

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

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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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• You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Envy

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• I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.

  Robert Winston

  Mother, Regret, Husband

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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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• Rejoice, and men will seek you;
  Grieve, and they turn and go,
  They want full measure of all your pleasure,
  But they do not need your woe.
  Be glad, and your friends are many;
  Be sad, and you lose them all,--
  There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
  But alone you must drink life's gall.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Friendship, Wine, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Loss, Safety

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1921). “Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home”

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• By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, New Year, Hope

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marian". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Courage, Hurt, Husband

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• Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

  Fred Rogers

  Grief, Sadness, Expression

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Dumb, Lips

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Vain, Rejoice

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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• It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

  Miriam Toews

  Towns, Emptiness, Happens

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

  Bill Crawford

  Dream, Loss, Important

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• I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mom, Lying, Home

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• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  Edward Irving

  Respect, Heart, Scotland

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• When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

  Laozi

  Army, Taoism, Battle

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• Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why
  Should wise men grieve to know that they must die?
  The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face
  Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Wise, Men, Light

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.58, Penguin

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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, People

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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