Grieving Quotes - Page 2

How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

In the spiritual life every person is his or her own discoverer, and you need not grieve if your discoveries are not believed in by others. It is your business to push on find more and increase individual happiness

That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe.

Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

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

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.

I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.