Grieving Quotes - Page 15

• Anytime we drag our past into the future, we have some grieving to do. When we refuse to grieve, we hang on to the weight of life that slows us down and robs us from finding our lives.

  Steve Arterburn

  Past, Weight, Down And

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• I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

  Eugene Richards

  Hurt, Jobs, People

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• Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

  Rumi

  Disaster, Happens, Happenings

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• I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Wish, Benedick

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.174, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Years

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• 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.

  John Pilger

  Lying, Ciphers, Journalist

  "Interview with John Pliger" by David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

  Lord Byron

  Grief, Past, Tears

  George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt. Canto I.”

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• How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Sorry, Good Day, Simple

  Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.123, Penguin

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• His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.

  William Watson

  Dog, Hate, Believe

  William Watson, “Epigrams”

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• We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. 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. I've fallen in love many times... always with you. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Valentines Day, Fall, Love Is

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• 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

  President, Campaigns, May

  "Hillary's joy as Joe Biden opens her path to the White House saying he will not run against her". Article by Francesca Chambers, White House correspondent for dailymail.com, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 21, 2015.

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• Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

  Nick Cave

  Children, Past, Sorrow

  Nick Cave (2007). “The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

  Mario Daniel Vega

  Heaven, Looks, Stores

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• 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

  Distance, Heart, Today

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Men, Evil, Sin

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• I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at helping some people with the grieving process and with trying to get them to talk about and understand who this person was.

  Angelina Jolie

  People, Funeral, Trying

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11, 2003.

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• When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain...Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.

  Kay Warren

  Pain, Grief, Vocabulary

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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

  Francis Bacon

  Fear, Parenting, Joy

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• On a more personal note we in this country we have a very tragic situation occur at one of our universities and, it really has taken the country aback and there's a real grieving process that we're going through, And going through it mourning and learning about the victims and-learning about it and showing our support, you know, I hesitate to say, how does your country handle what is that type of carnage on a daily basis?

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Real, Taken

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.

  Caroline Myss

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there's no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grief, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Culturally, now, we're really tight around death, and as a result I think people miss out on a lot of the beautiful aspects of the end of life process that can be very helpful for the grieving process, that can be a really beautiful part of transition of life that we don't get to experience because it's not in the conversation.

  Chrysta Bell

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was grateful that Facebook already had generous bereavement policies . Now Facebook employees receive 20 days paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and 10 days for an extended family member. I'm proud that we're able to do this and I hope more businesses do the same. Only 60 percent of private sector workers get paid time off after the death of a loved one, and then it's usually just a few days. Workers and families deserve better than that.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grateful, Loss, Death Of A Loved One

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Grief, Giving, Stronger

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Good Day, World, Seven

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