Grieving Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Hands, Land

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers”

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• Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope. This hope is a foretaste of future blessings, of which the soul even now receives direct experience, and so it comes to know in part the surpassing richness of God's bounty, in accordance with the Psalmist's words, 'Taste and know that the Lord is bountiful' (Ps. 34:8). For He is the jubilation of the righteous, the joy of the upright, the gladness of the humble, and the solace of those who grieve because of Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Knows, Angry

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• If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.

  Barbara Johnson

  Regret, Flower, Adversity

  "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around".

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• We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.

  Joe Biden

  Justice, Care, Hell

  "US - Syria air strikes still possible". Interview with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. September 4, 2014.

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• When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

  Mary Douglas

  Done, Terrorism, Reflecting

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• A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

  James Allen

  Men, Worry, Understanding

  James Allen (2016). “As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Funeral

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

  Anne Rice

  Light, Jewels, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books

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• Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Doors, Order

  "The Last Continent". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Two, People, Mind

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

  Kate Mosse

  Loss, Echoes, Space

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• Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Life And Death, Bird, Cracks

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• I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now.

  Catherine Marshall

  Spiritual, Reality, Who I Am

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• I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.

  Dave Reichert

  Goodbye, War, Believe

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• In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

  Esther Perel

  Two, People, Community

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• Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

  Lucy Lawless

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Motherhood

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

  Johannes Tauler

  Love, Spring, Men

  "The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: With Twenty-five of His Sermons".

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• Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

  Orson Scott Card

  Integrity, Cutting, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.790, Macmillan

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