Grieving Quotes - Page 29

• We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

  Helen Keller

  Grief, Losing A Loved One, Loss

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• That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

  Sarah Dessen

  Grief, Language, Spokes

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.70, Penguin

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• My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Ideas, Divine

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

  Fanny Crosby

  Death, Angel, Echoes

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.36, Hendrickson Publishers

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• To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

  Jim Noel

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Amnesia

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• Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Children, Shadow Of Death

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• Or maybe a person is just made up of a lot of peopleMaybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time. Hauling them in as we make choices, good and bad, as we screw up, step up, lose our minds, find our minds, fall apart, fall in love, as we grieve, grow, retreat from the world, dive into the world, as we make things, as we break things.

  Jandy Nelson

  Falling In Love, Self, Choices

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• Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sorrow

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “South Moon Under”, p.70, Booklassic

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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atoms, Unnecessary, Driven

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• Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Passing Away, Prosperity, Should

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• The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Girl, Ordinary, Gone

  Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”

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• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

  James Russell Lowell

  Philosophical, Destiny, Wind

  'Democracy and other Addresses' (1887) 'Democracy'

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• It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Dark, Light

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.247, Penguin

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• Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mistake, New Beginnings, Giving

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• Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Grief, Tragedy, Lasts

  Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Grief, Littles, Little Things

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• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Shining

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Victory, Facts

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey”, p.15, Tyndale House

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• Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

  Vikram Seth

  Blessed, Soul, Too Much

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• The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain.

  Henri Nouwen

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or had a miscarriage? Or a gay person whose partner has died? Or an elderly person who has lost every friend and relative? So many heartaches can't be found in the dictionary.

  Jeffrey Zaslow

  Sibling, Miscarriage, Gay

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• The leaves fall patiently
  Nothing remembers or grieves
  The river takes to the sea
  The yellow drift of leaves.

  Sara Teasdale

  Fall, Autumn, Yellow

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

  Shackerley Marmion

  Grief, Joy, Silent

  Shackerley Marmion (1875). “The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion with Prefatory Memoir: Introduction and Notes”, p.82, Edinburgh : W. Paterson

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• I just don't know where home is. There's this promise of happiness out there. I know it. I even feel it sometimes. But it's like chasing the moon - just when I think I have it, it disappears into the horizon. I grieve and try to move on, but then the damn thing comes back the next night, giving me hope of catching it all over again.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Moving, Home, Moon

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