Grieved Loss Quotes

#1. I think that public grieving is a good thing. People need to be grieved; loss needs to be acknowledged publicly, because it helps to confer a sense of reality on the loss but also because it makes it known that this was a real life.

Judith Butler

#2. 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

#3. To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.

Prentice Mulford

#4. If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

Andre Malraux

#5. He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Julie Orringer

#6. Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been. So

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. "Unask the question" is what it says.

Robert M. Pirsig

#8. A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

Henry Cloud

#9. I grieved his loss, but I think it would have been worse if I'd never known him. I loved that I'd loved him.

R.K. Ryals

#10. At least then I could have grieved and learned to live with the loss eventually. But having you leave when I knew damn well you still loved me? How the hell was I supposed to live with that loss?

Kaylea Cross

#11. Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from which we are by now irrevocably alienated.

Guy Davenport

#12. It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins

#13. There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

Kristin Kimball

#14. I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.

Anthony Dirrell

#15. I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.

Rosie Thomas

#16. I've had the pleasure of hearing The Novelists perform live. They are gifted songwriters and talented musicians with strong lead voices. This is a band with lots of heart & soul.

Daryl Stuermer

#17. Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation.

Brian D. McLaren

#19. Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

David Mitchell

#20. ANYONE WHO HAS EVER GRIEVED knows that grieving carries with it a tremendous wear and tear to the body itself, never mind the soul. Loss is an assault; a certain exhaustion, as strong as the pull of the moon on the tides, needs to be allowed for eventually.

Elizabeth Strout

#21. I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

Wayne Rooney

#22. A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so that the official can learn who you are, where you were born, and how you look when photographed unflatteringly.

Lemony Snicket

#23. To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. Lorenz was the charismatic, flamboyant thinker - he didn't conduct a single statistical analysis in his life - while Tinbergen did the nitty-gritty of actual data collection.

Frans De Waal