Grieving quotes:

Send

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. -- Sarah Dessen
Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. -- Lord Byron
Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world. -- Thomas Attig
Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't. -- Sue Grafton
Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process. -- Roger Delano Hinkins
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
A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before? -- Wang Wei
Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways. -- Thomas Attig
Grief is itself a medicine. -- William Cowper
Those things that hurt, instruct. -- Benjamin Franklin
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. -- Dan Rather
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- Rumi
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. -- Moliere
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. -- C. S. Lewis
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. -- Khalil Gibran
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. -- Roger Caras
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. -- Anatole France
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. -- Mark Twain
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. -- Joan Didion
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful. -- Billy Graham
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. -- Nigella Lawson
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. -- Martin Puryear
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. -- Mark Twain
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -- Helen Keller
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. -- Mike Mills
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. -- Walt Whitman
The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. -- Rita Rudner
There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them. -- Patti Davis
When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. -- Simon Callow
--
Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end. -- H?fez
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. -- James Herriot
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
If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. -- Bill Watterson
I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored. -- Lee Radziwill
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. -- Patti Davis
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
O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
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. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that. -- Emmylou Harris
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. -- Henri Nouwen
The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. -- Elaine Pagels
The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything. -- Rick Warren
I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience. -- Jon Katz
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -- Robert Fulghum
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. -- Henry Ford
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity? -- Alphonse de Lamartine
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone. -- Cate Blanchett
It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance. -- Jon Katz
Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real. -- Hank Azaria
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait. -- Robert Winston
I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding. -- Natasha Trethewey
There is no shortcut to grieving. -- Susan Sarandon
Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives -- Bennie Thompson
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. -- William Faulkner
When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. -- Laozi
I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life. -- Ivan Turgenev
I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16. -- Peaches Geldof
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. -- Luo Guanzhong
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet. -- Orson Scott Card
I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving. -- Michelle Moran
When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is. -- Gayle Forman
The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. -- Asa Don Brown
Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. -- Martha Whitmore Hickman
He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days. -- Janet Morris
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. -- Elizabeth McCracken
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. -- Cormac McCarthy
I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving. -- William Shakespeare
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. -- Cheryl Strayed
Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you. -- Mario Daniel Vega
For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. -- Holly Goldberg Sloan
--
How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct? -- G. Campbell Morgan
First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving. -- Tony Dungy
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. -- William Shakespeare
--
When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show -- Zig Ziglar
I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving. -- Patti Smith
I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. -- Zach Braff
Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it. -- Lauren Bowles
You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning. -- Catherynne M. Valente
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. -- Walt Disney
The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him -- Rita Rudner
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. -- Yohji Yamamoto
We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls. -- Thomas S. Monson
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors. -- Arthur W. Pink
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
My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process. -- Elin Nordegren
We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do. -- Tony Kushner
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere. -- Petrarch
So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me. -- Linda Ronstadt
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place. -- Diogenes Laertius
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. -- Anne Lamott
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
Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents. -- Elizabeth McCracken
But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home. -- Cindy Sheehan
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
Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving. -- Candy Lightner
Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you. -- Sarah Dessen
I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job. -- Eugene Richards
Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning. -- Devendra Banhart
But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them. -- Melina Marchetta
If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear. -- Waylon Jennings
It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a tremendous loss. And we all have to rally around that piece of it. -- Michelle Obama
Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing... -- Elizabeth Gilbert
All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream. -- Bill Crawford

Send