Grieving Quotes - Page 24

• Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

  Saib Tabrizi

  People, Departed, Survivor

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• If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

  Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

  Grief, Would Be, Pay

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• To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Evil, Sorrow

  Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

  Luo Guanzhong

  Rejoice

  Luo Guanzhong (2016). “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, p.244, XinXii

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• Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of [Passenger] pigeons. Perhaps we now grieve because we are not sure, in our hearts, that we have gained by the exchange. The gadgets of industry bring us more comforts than the pigeons did, but do they add as much to the glory of the spring?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Spring, Heart

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Wisconsin: On a Monument to the Pigeon", p. 109, 1949.

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• You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that.

  Emmylou Harris

  Color, People, Interesting

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.

  John Updike

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving.
  You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Grief, Punishment

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• Consider that nothing in human life is stable; for then you will not exult overmuch in prosperity, nor grieve overmuch in adversity. Rejoice over the good things which come to you, but grieve in moderation over the evils which befall you.

  Isocrates

  Adversity, Evil, Life Is

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Sin, Repentance, One Thing

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Heart, Loss, Safety

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1921). “Heaven: A Place--a City--a Home”

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• It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

  Tacitus

  Becoming

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• I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

  William C. Bryant

  Promise

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• Rejoice, and men will seek you;
  Grieve, and they turn and go,
  They want full measure of all your pleasure,
  But they do not need your woe.
  Be glad, and your friends are many;
  Be sad, and you lose them all,--
  There are none to decline your nectar'd wine,
  But alone you must drink life's gall.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Friendship, Wine, Men

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.

  Fred Rogers

  Grief, Sadness, Expression

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• A Christian's wit is offensive light,
  A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight;
  Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth,
  'Tis always active on the side of truth.

  William Cowper

  Christian, Light, Sight

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• O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Music, Sacred, Should

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.279

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• There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Research, Way, Broads

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

  Joan Didion

  Impulse, Persons, Ifs

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• Sorrows come to stretch out places in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Death, Heart, Joy

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• No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Dumb, Lips

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Grief, Giving, Suffering

  "But If Not". Lance B. Wickman's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Growing Up, Fall, Silence

  Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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• At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.

  Blake Morrison

  Writing, Long, People

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