Grieving Quotes - Page 30

• Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

  Sarah Dessen

  Grief, Sorrow, Imperfect

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• We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

  John Green

  Sad, Pain, Real

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• Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive...it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Thinking, Sometimes, Used

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home: A Novel”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

  Patti Smith

  Flower, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sympathy, Children, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: 1706-1757”, p.391, Regnery Publishing

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• The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Suicide, Party, Games

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• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Compassion, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.58, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wise, Men, Sorrow

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

  Gloria Naylor

  Life, Believe, Feel Good

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Bailey's Cafe: A Novel”, p.147, Open Road Media

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• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Order, Empowering

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

  Isadora Duncan

  Littles, Way, Firsts

  "My Life (Revised and Updated)".

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Clouds, Suffering

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

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• In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Soul, Dare

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• A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Thinking, Saving

  A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

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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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