Grieving Quotes - Page 8

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  There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

  Aeschylus

  Missing You, Pain, Memories

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Butterfly, Laughing

  "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

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• A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Deep Water, Slides, Treading

  Susanna Kearsley (2008). “Sophia's Secret”

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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. I had to remake it again and be a new person in the world without my mom. It was a very primal rebirth, that time after my mom died.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mom, Mother, Suffering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Long, Healthy

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• Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Husband, Children, Teenager

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• Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Grief, Heart, Knowing

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “The Wind From Hastings”, p.198, Macmillan

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• When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

  Clare Bowen

  People, Brave, Storm

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• Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

  Hafez

  Journey, Life And Death, Unseen

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• You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Grief, Condolences, Stills

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

  Victoria Alexander

  Grief, Loss, Three

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• When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Art, Jobs, Children

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• Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

  Maimonides

  Tired, Remembrance, Sorrow

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• It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Loss, Years

  Mark Twain, Harriet Elinor Smith (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Sympathy, Memories

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• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Sympathy, Grief

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• There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

  Patti Davis

  Running, Memories, Process

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• When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

  Billy Graham

  Grief, Great Love, Christ

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered
  thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.

  Mary Potter

  Grief, Sadness, Fog

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• I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Grief, Cereal, Laughing

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• Attachment is the source of all suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attachment, Suffering, Source

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• At Christmas-tide the open hand
  Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land,
  And none are left to grieve alone,
  For Love is heaven and claims its own.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Christmas, Love Is, Hands

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