Grieving Quotes - Page 16

• You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Positive, Death

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Tragedy, Goes On, Existentialism

  The Unnamable (1959)

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• With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life, that I would be a clinical psychologist and write books and have a family, that that was not going to happen, because if the world is collapsing around you, it just doesn't seem that appealing anymore.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Book, Writing, Vision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I am confronted with emotional pain, I try to allow myself the time to properly grieve. We are caring, emotional beings, and attempting to suppress pain will only cause it to negatively manifest itself in other ways.

  Amanda Schull

  Pain, Caring, Emotional

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Italian, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Loss, Thinking, Joy

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• 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

  Letting Go, Forgiving, Trying

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.

  Zicheng Hong

  Hate, Loss, Taoism

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• Now comes the mystery.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mystery, Last Words

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• 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

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

  "Bush: Leaving Iraq Now Would Be 'Mistake'". 'All Things Considered' with David Greene, www.npr.org. August 11, 2005.

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• Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

  Lord Byron

  Bravery, Brave, Ifs

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

  Jessamyn West

  Farewell, Long, Sorrow

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• 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

  Mother, War, Eye

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• None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart.
  [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

  Tacitus

  Grief, Heart, Rejoice

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• As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Pain, Real

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• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  Barbara Holland

  Friendship, Summer, True Friend

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• 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

  Years, People, Wish

  "Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets". Interview with John Campanelli, www.cleveland.com. February 1, 2010.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Journey, Self

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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

  Children, Growing Up, Passion

  Anita Brookner (2016). “Brief Lives”, p.69, Penguin UK

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• Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Boots, Fortune, Dies

  Letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, 1948.

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• Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Pain, Heart, Voice

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• One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

  Robert Graves

  Heart

  Robert Graves (2013). “Selected Poems”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

  Cesare Pavese

  Girl, Stupid, Loss

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.105, Transaction Publishers

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• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

  Mason Cooley

  Gains, Reputation, Virtue

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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