Grieving Quotes - Page 9

• Attachment is the source of all suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Attachment, Suffering, Source

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• Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Pain, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

  John Keats

  Steel, Heal, Feels

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.117, e-artnow

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• My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

  John Gay

  Cold, Dear, Hard

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• You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

  Sisqo

  Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

  James K. Baxter

  Fall, Heart, Loss

  Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”

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• To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.

  Philip Kapleau

  Pain, Grief, Mean

  Philip Kapleau (1990). “The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide”

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• I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Believe, Loss, And Love

  "Francesca Lia Block’s Elements Of Style". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2012.

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• There is no shortcut to grieving.

  Susan Sarandon

  Grief, Shortcuts

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• I wish I could tell you it gets better. It doesn't get better. YOU get better.

  Joan Rivers

  Get Better, Wish, It Gets Better

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• It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

  Jon Richardson

  Perfect, Care, Easier

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• Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.

  Sue Grafton

  Thinking, World, Ill

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.222, Pan Macmillan

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• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

  W. H. Auden

  Fog, World, Mist

  Age of Anxiety (1947) p. 104

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• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  Edmund Burke

  Pain, Passion, Men

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.32

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Lying, People, Adoption

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• There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

  Leon Bloy

  Death, Grief, Heart

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• What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Rain, Thinking, Joy

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.69, Atlântico Press

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• A human life is a story told by God.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Sympathy, Condolences, Grief

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• Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

  Antonio Porchia

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Heartache

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

  Raymond Chandler

  Winter, Long, Mind

  The Big Sleep ch. 3 (1939)

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• You've been quiet these past days," Trevanion said. "Are you going to tell me what the...exchange of words was about?" "Who said there was an exchange of words?" Finnikin asked with irritation. "When a woman says 'I hope you fall under your horse' and 'catch your death, then see if I grieve you,'" Perri said, "then there's been an exchange of words." Finnikin glared at him. "In my humble opinion.

  Melina Marchetta

  Horse, Fall, Humble

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• You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

  W. S. Merwin

  Heaven, Doe

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