Grieving Quotes - Page 21

• Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Thinking, Praying

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• I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Given, Feels

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The square deal, 1901-1905”

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• A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.

  John Vance Cheney

  Summer, Weed, Autumn

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• We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, People, Soul

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• Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

  Louise Hay

  Grief, Heart, Loss

  Louise L. Hay, David Kessler (2014). “You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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• Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Taken, Giving, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 52: Sermons 2968-3019”, p.237, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Death, Grief, Bereavement

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show

  Zig Ziglar

  Strong, Brave, Needs

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• In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

  David Walker

  Home, Usa, Iraq

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• To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Taught, Difficult, Know How

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.

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• In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  World, Littles

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• Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Wall, Wind, Blue

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• You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Worry, Calm, Achieve

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.86, Harlequin

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• During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Real

  "Yep, Obama Said the N-Word. Here Are the Other Candid Things He Said" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 22, 2015.

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• For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

  Michael Sheen

  Sexy, Reality, People

  "Michael Sheen Exclusive Interview BEAUTIFUL BOY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Suffering, Goes On

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Father, Should Have

  Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

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• 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

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1979). “Five novels”

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• When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

  Simon Callow

  Cheer, Children, Parent

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• One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

  Phil Ochs

  Dawn, Politics, Gargoyles

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• I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.

  Peaches Geldof

  Mother

  "Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof, found dead at 25", www.foxnews.com. April 7, 2014.

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• We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

  Simon Blackburn

  Memories, Maturity, Taste

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.101, Oxford University Press

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• Why is the measure of love loss?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Loss, Love Loss

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery”, p.111, Random House

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• Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

  Sophocles

  Hate, Too Much, Forget

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• If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Skeletons, Worship You

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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