Grieving Quotes - Page 23

• Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

  Euripides

  Husband, Waste, Lost

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• I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Dave Reichert

  Rest In Peace, War, Believe

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• I only miss you when I'm breathing.

  Jason Derulo

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  "Breathing". Song by Jason Derulo, Future Story Album, September 27, 2011.

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• There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or your husband, brings a smile to your lips before it brings a tear to your eye. It will happen. My prayer for you is that day will come sooner than later.

  Joe Biden

  Daughter, Prayer, Husband

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• Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

  Thomas Golden, Jr.

  Grief, Smell, Bigs

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• I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.

  Li Qingzhao

  Life And Death, Sorrow, Weight

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• I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

  Larry McMurtry

  Thinking, Too Much, Sickness

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Perfect, Going Away

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• It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Pain, Believe, Grief

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

  Steig Larsson

  People, Turns, Efficient

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• I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Sorry, I Can, I Am Sorry

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• A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even as our Lord Jesus Christ beheld our poverty and hasted to help us. Give me grace ever to alleviate the crosses and difficulties of those around me, and never to add to them; teach me to be a consoler in sorrow, to take thought for the stranger, the widow, and the orphan; let my charity show itself not in words only but in deed and truth.

  Johann Arndt

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

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• The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opposites, Addiction, Mind

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• At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Art, Integrity, Healing

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• A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Kings, Men, Light

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• It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

  Patty Duke

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, People

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• I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Grief, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.309, Modern Library

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• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  William Ralph Inge

  Death, Profound, Happy Love

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• It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Two, Giving

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cattermole, Daniel Maclise, Gino Doria (1871). “The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens”, p.6

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• For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

  St. Jerome

  Heaven, Desire, Earth

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• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Past, Punishment, Infinite

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.1, TAN Books

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• Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Sorrow, Trials

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• The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

  Mike Mills

  Nerves, Connections, Poetic

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• Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Remember that you come into this world in the middle of the movie, and you leave in the middle; and so do the people you love. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss.

  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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