Top 100 Quotes About Grieving
#1. When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.
Laozi
#2. ...and like a lot of grieving people who keep a habitual distance from their emotions, he thought that being alone was what he needed.
Michael Chabon
#3. The Empire might have demanded that they sacrifice their souls, but at one point, the majority of those people had been no worse than any others. All that was good in them had been lost to the Empire and to the war; surely that was worth grieving for.
Claudia Gray
#4. That one minute of pure happiness I felt and the heartache that came moments later is something I never want to experience again. I'm tired of grieving.
Colleen Hoover
#5. 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
#6. When I was a kid, a young man, I was terribly concerned about getting my philosophy together. But as I've done my grieving I've given up on that and settled on a pretty simple deal: The object of life is to gain wisdom. And that's what I'm trying to do.
Elizabeth Harper Neeld
#7. Grieving is a weakness-too human, too mired in compassion, and we can't repeat that mistake, can we?
Steven Dos Santos
#8. 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
#9. Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#10. The eyes of the lovers are blind while those of the grieving are wide open.
A. Mani
#11. Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.
Diogenes Laertius
#12. As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along ... that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.
Joe Biden
#13. I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.
Michelle Moran
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.
Hillary Clinton
#17. I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.
Edward Hirsch
#18. 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.
Jane Hamilton
#19. When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything.
Mark Nepo
#20. You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving.
Alexandra Fuller
#21. My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
Elizabeth Edwards
#22. 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
#24. The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.
Asa Don Brown
#25. Grieving is messy and horrible, and it takes too long, and everyone tells you what you need.
Katherine Lampe
#26. He was a practical man: give him a sensitive technical instrument, and he could maintain it; something broken, and he could mend it, meditatively, efficiently. But confronted by his grieving wife, he felt useless.
M.L. Stedman
#27. Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating?
Karen White
#28. Frances was not only grieving her sister's loss, but also striving to reconcile in her mind the tragedy with the idea of a loving God. Restless and aching, Frances climbed mountains in the Swiss Alps, where their hotel had a view of beautiful Mount Rigi.
Nancy Carpentier Brown
#29. 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
#30. People don't finish grieving until they start talking about it.
Jen Nadol
#31. When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. And hating being happy is a shitty way to live.
Hannah Moskowitz
#32. What is serious in laughing, worrying, grieving, mourning, concerning about anything which is temporary? Well, it is funny, actually, when you know life isn't immortal.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#33. The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Martin Puryear
#34. As hard as it is, grieving can be a gift, if we use it to examine our own lives and come closer to those we love.
Amy Eldon
#35. I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#36. How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?
G. Campbell Morgan
#37. You keep thinking that with practice you will eventually get the knack of enjoying superficial encounters, that you will stop looking for the universal solvent, stop grieving. You will learn to compound happiness out of small increments of mindless pleasure.
Jay McInerney
#38. For someone grieving, cook with chives, ginger, coriander, and rosemary. Theirs is the pungent flavor, which draws grief up and out of the body and releases it into the air.
Nicole Mones
#39. Tears resurfaced. I tried to bite them back, but they bled free. And I knew they would fall endless, ceaseless, even when my eyes were dry. Never would I stop grieving her. This love was eternal.
A.L. Jackson
#40. If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.
Marianne Williamson
#41. The intense roller coaster of emotions will gradually lesson over time. But there is no timeframe for the grieving process, and it will not be rushed, no matter how fast you'd like to "get over it." The reality is that there is no getting over it; you can only walk through it.
Elizabeth Berrien
#42. On the fences the shiny blackbirds with red epaulets clicked their dry call. The meadowlarks sang like water, and the wild doves, concealed among the bursting leaves of the oaks, made a sound of restrained grieving.
John Steinbeck
#43. 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
#44. That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition
it is.
Gayle Forman
#45. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
Cormac McCarthy
#46. She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been.
Kimberley Freeman
#47. Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world.
Thomas Attig
#48. I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.
Elizabeth Berg
#49. Life when it ends is still alive, memories are the celebration of what it meant. Grieving is that part, our soul, that can't easily say goodbye
S.L. Northey
#50. Is this Journey? Are you grieving to Journey?
Kasie West
#51. Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box with a grieving family outside, or inside a wooden box under six foot of soil with family wondering where you were. The former was if they didn't hold a grudge.
Jasper Fforde
#52. 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
#53. Those who are materially poor, hungry, and grieving are called "blessed" by Jesus, because wealth, satisfactions, and pleasures do not blind them to their need for God's Kingdom ... Their misery helps them to cry out to God and to trust in Him since everything else has failed them.
Roch A. Kereszty
#54. Just like a man grieving because he has recently lost in his dreams some thing that he had never had in reality, or hoping that tomorrow he would dream that he found it again. That is how mathematics is created; it has its fatal flaw.
Vladimir Nabokov
#55. 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
#56. These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?
Tennessee Williams
#57. 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
#58. There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.
Joan Didion
#59. You can't conquer everything in a day. Or even a week. Maybe not even a year. There's no way to work hard at grieving. You just have to let it happen. And you are, so don't fight it.
Julie Cross
#60. And when the work of grieving is done,
The wound of loss will heal
And you will have learned
To wean your eyes
From that gap in the air
And be able to enter the hearth
In your soul where your loved one
Has awaited your return
All the time.
John O'Donohue
#61. In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie.
Kimberly Schlapman
#62. One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more than
Irvin D. Yalom
#63. I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.
Sherman Alexie
#64. Suddenly Elena wished that Stefan wasn't the type of boyfriend to give her space. She wished that he was here with her. Come to think of it, if they were all grieving for the same person, why shouldn't he be with her? Why had he run away instead of staying to support her?
L.J.Smith
#65. Yes, you are still grieving for the fact that Olly is not loving you as you love him. But death is no solution. Certainly not this horrible, messy death. Could you at least not consider possible option that is not leaving you looking diabolical at funeral?"
Oh, for the love of God.
Lucy Holliday
#66. 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
#67. When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.
Stieg Larsson
#68. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
Walt Disney Company
#69. For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#70. Clear Sky's shoulders drooped. "I just want us to be together, like we used to be. Fluttering Bird wants it too." Thunder felt a surge of sympathy. Was his father still grieving for the young sister he'd lost? "What if you're wrong?" "I'm not.
Erin Hunter
#71. Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
Billy Graham
#72. 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
#73. There was no use grieving over what might have been
Janette Oke
#74. There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.
Patti Davis
#76. 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
#77. When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show
Zig Ziglar
#78. 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
#79. Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
Ben Harper
#80. 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
#81. No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.
Alysia Reiner
#82. For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.
Ross Kemp
#83. Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.
Sarah Dessen
#84. When someone is grieving He had too much respect for sorrow to approach it with curiosity. He had learned to put off his shoes when he drew nigh the burning bush of human pain.
George MacDonald
#85. I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.
David Toop
#86. 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
#87. She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
Colum McCann
#88. You can't judge someone else's grief - we're all grieving something, and everyone has the right to be sad about whatever the hell they want to be sad about.
Amanda Richardson
#89. I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.
Hunter Tylo
#90. Grieving is not a race, nor is it a predictable experience - it is as unique as each and every one of us. Therefore by creating your own path you will find your own way through.
Corrie Sirota
#91. 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
#92. At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.
Tim O'Brien
#94. Oh, the different consciousness between the grieving and the dying! One sees midnight, the other joyful sunrise. One sees death, the other Life as never before.
Richard Bach
#95. I was planning to end this phase after a few weeks, but after one particular meeting, the lead advisor asked me not to come back. She said she'd noticed that every time I was asked to give a suggestion about an ex-husband to a grieving divorcee, I always said, You should have him murdered.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#96. You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.
Amy McNamara
#97. embrace the suffering knowing the grieving you experience is about having something you desperately want and lost or having something you never possessed and earnestly desire. That lack you experience is the reality of life.
David W. Earle
#98. There was nothing that was such a salve to my grieving heart as the hawk returning.
Helen Macdonald
#99. A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.
Megan McKenna
#100. 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
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