Top 100 Grieve Quotes
#1. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust?
William Shakespeare
#2. For you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.
Charles Frazier
#3. They tell me that you have been crying in your sleep. Do not grieve our separation, my love, for our reunion will come just as swiftly.
-Letter from unknown prisoner, convicted of treason, to fiancee
Marie Lu
#4. What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
Paulo Coelho
#5. 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
#6. Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves
moments before the wind.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#7. But if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.
Susan Meissner
#8. Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.
Lionel Shriver
#9. 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
#10. Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#11. Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence,
you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is.
Where they come from never goes dry.
It is an always flowing spring.
Rumi
#12. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.
Gregory David Roberts
#13. As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
Sam Harris
#14. You love and you hate and you grieve and you don't even feel it.
Lev Grossman
#15. To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.
A.W. Tozer
#16. To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.
Orhan Pamuk
#17. 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
#18. You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
George R R Martin
#19. If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.
Zoe Rosenberg
#20. I tell her we all shall fly so soon, not to let it grieve her, and what indeed is Earth but a Nest, from whose rim we are all falling?
Emily Dickinson
#21. And then the death will come. The great parting, but the least painful of all the goodbyes we ever knew. For in death, only one shall grieve. And so far we have always, at every parting, grieved together.
Ivo Andric
#22. You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever - or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.
Tim Kreider
#23. Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.
Sunshine O'Donnell
#24. This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#26. It's only those who love so strongly that grieve so despairingly.
Celia Mcmahon
#28. The learned has grieve by instructing foolish disciple surely,
As a wicked wife or with the wretched having familiarity.
[4] 1.4 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#29. I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.
Saint Patrick
#30. How can I know you love me
unless I see you grieve over me?
Louise Gluck
#31. Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.
Cesar Millan
#32. One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.
Anita Brookner
#33. In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.
Tahereh Mafi
#34. You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don't. They never can. There is no perfect. There's just different. But different can be wonderful.
Sarah Jio
#37. The word "to grieve" or "lament" in Japanese is actually made up of two different kanji characters - "sadness" and "resentment.
Takashi Hiraide
#38. Since I was dead - or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation - I figured I should be allowed to grieve.
Robin Wasserman
#39. Men cannot grieve as dogs do. We should be grateful for that.
Robin Hobb
#40. I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary ...
Marianne Williamson
#41. We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
#42. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
#43. Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
Nayyirah Waheed
#44. Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
#45. You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.
Maria V. Snyder
#46. 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
#48. 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
#49. She took my hand and told me not to grieve; for wherever we were, she said, there was France and there was God.
W. Somerset Maugham
#50. Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
Bhagavad Gita
#51. 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
#52. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering
Ida Scott Taylor
#53. Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
#54. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
Stephenie Meyer
#55. Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
Lucy Lawless
#56. Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.
Richard Rohr
#57. To grieve is to know you've loved. To love is to know you're human.
D.C. Akers
#58. For pleasures past I do not grieve, Nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave No thing that claims a tear.
George Gordon Byron
#59. I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?
George R R Martin
#60. You lose the ability to trust anyone, to be touched, to grieve. Eventually, you are simply absent from yourself.
Andrew Solomon
#61. How should they know? I can't reveal
to a single friend what my soul conceals,
whom I'm in love with or what I believe -
my dreams, my thoughts - or why I grieve.
Hristo Botev
#62. 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
#63. God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
Tullian Tchividjian
#64. I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
Larry McMurtry
#65. Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
Anna Akhmatova
#66. Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.
Jane Austen
#67. Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.
Michael B. Jordan
#68. Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.
Didier Anzieu
#69. If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#70. All I'm trying to tell you is to be strong. Don't ever let nothing get you down. Don't be afraid or ashamed to love, or to grieve when the thing you love is gone. Just don't let it throw you, no matter how much it hurts.
Patrick D. Smith
#71. Such a funny thing death is for mortals. You cry. You morn. You grieve. You get angry. But death is not always tragic, dear one. Sometimes death is the ultimate expression of love.
R.K. Ryals
#72. The surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve.
Bethia as an old woman about to die
p 257
Geraldine Brooks
#73. No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves ... with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.
Alethea Kontis
#74. Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
Hafez
#76. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
#77. Oh my darling one, how long you wander from me, how weary I grow of waiting and looking, and calling for you; sometimes I shut my eyes, and shut my heart towards you, and try hard to forget you because you grieve me so, but you'll never go away, oh you never will.
Emily Dickinson
#78. The better we grieve, the better we live
Anonymous
#79. It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.
Julia Cameron
#80. Who strive not for objects unattainable, grieve not for what lost and gone be,
Who suffer not mind clouded amid mishap, have intellect with wisdom truly.
[26] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#81. Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?
Francis Atterbury
#82. Don't tell me not to drink. not to smoke. not to grieve.
if i speak of these things it's because i have to
but i am not speaking to you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#84. To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.
Mason Cooley
#85. I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to grieve forever.
Christina Rasmussen
#86. We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
Simon Schama
#87. To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,
Is such my future fate?
The morn was dreary, must the eve
Be also desolate?
Charlotte Bronte
#88. No matter how we grieve over our bad luck, nothing will happen. We have to smile and believe that tomorrow will be better than today.
Tachibana Higuchi
#89. As an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve.
Asa Don Brown
#90. Only the Holy Spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair. We should not grieve our Guide by indulging in worry or paying undue attention to self.
Billy Graham
#92. Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform.
Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission
Judith-Victoria Douglas
#93. "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?
Benjamin Franklin
#95. I grieve for every death.'It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
George W. Bush
#96. And so I just grieve, groaning,
'Let me not go
To the Place of the Shorn:
My heart is now precious ...
For I, I am a poet
And my flower is golden.
David Bowles
#97. Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.
Isocrates
#99. Across a world where all men grieve
And grieving strive the more,
The great days range like tides and leave
Our dead on every shore.
Rudyard Kipling
#100. God said: indeed, it is forbidden to them for forty years [in which] they will wander throughout the land. So do not grieve over the defiantly disobedient people.
Qur'an
