Top 38 Grieving Heart Quotes
#1. There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.
Helen Macdonald
#2. And then she hears the sound of a helicopter, from somewhere behind her and, turning, sees the long white beam of light sweeping the dead ground as it comes, like a lighthouse gone mad from loneliness, and searching that barren ground as foolishly, as randomly, as any grieving heart ever has.
William Gibson
#3. 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
#4. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino
#5. I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart ... The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence ... When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.
James Martineau
#6. I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had. cherishing what we did. I wish you were here.
Marie Lu
#7. He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells me, grow by grieving, live by dying, love by losing. The heart itself is the field of battle and the garden green.
Andrew Peterson
#8. And then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's desire. What was troubling her this morning? Maybe Kate had reproached her on the phone for leaving me? How dare Kate.
Oh yeah? Go for it, my darling. Remind her of what she's missing. No, don't.
Mordecai Richler
#9. It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.
R.C. Sproul
#10. None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
[Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]
Tacitus
#11. Mikey, she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad.
Patrick Ness
#12. Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.
Vaclav Havel
#13. Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.
Morgan Llywelyn
#15. Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.
Lawren Leo
#16. Cause when I hear your name I can not stop cheesing
I love you so much that my heart stops beating when you're leaving
And I'm grieving and my heart starts bleeding
Life without you has no goddamn meaning
Various
#17. And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.
Sarah Waters
#18. Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.
Antonio Porchia
#19. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
Walt Disney Company
#20. 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
#21. Until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did.
Marie Lu
#22. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,
All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. You seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
Pearl S. Buck
#24. We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.
Thomas S. Monson
#25. What happens when you return
and find nothing
but a hollowed shell,
shingles and floor,
walls and echoes
and the light that lead you here
has now burned out
and the ones who built it
have traveled afar
and you cant go to them,
no matter what shoes you wear.
Kellie Elmore
#26. There is no such thing as too much pain in the heart of a grieving Woman.
Joan Ambu
#27. sorrow not only twists the heart, but also dims the eyes. Only the very wise can see good in the earth when they are grieving.
Sue Harrison
#28. 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
#29. She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
Gillian Flynn
#30. How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?
G. Campbell Morgan
#31. No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.
Sri Chinmoy
#32. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Rabindranath Tagore
#33. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
Jose N. Harris
#34. Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.
Richard J. Foster
#35. My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
Elizabeth Edwards
#36. 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
Melanie Shankle
#37. Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating?
Karen White
#38. Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.
Edwin Markham