Grieving Quotes - Page 26

• We too can be saints in our family, in our neighborhood, wherever we live and work. Be a person who listens to what people need, communicating not only to grieve or tell others about your own problems. Listen in order to intercede and help out.

  Pope Francis

  Order, People, Saint

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• You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

  George R. R. Martin

  Character, Popcorn, Care

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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• I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Sadness, Challenges

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.22, Bantam

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• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

  Joan Rivers

  Hurt, Fear, Grief

  "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" by Readers Digest, (p. 87), 1997.

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• Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Soul, World

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• Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.

  William Carlos Williams

  Fire, Flames, Years

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

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• Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may cut free memories and feelings that we thought had gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.

  Joan Didion

  Memories, Ocean, Cutting

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• Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’

  John Bradshaw

  Pain, Sadness, Healing

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.78, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

  Horace

  Doors, Cottages, Palaces

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• I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Character, Trying

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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• We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

  Brendan Bayliss

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.

  Colum McCann

  Tired, Heaven, World

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.292, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.

  Dave Reichert

  Country, Grateful, Loss

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• I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Vain, Rejoice

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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• It’s hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God’s will. It’s hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you’re not supposed to have emptiness.

  Miriam Toews

  Towns, Emptiness, Happens

  Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

  Bill Crawford

  Dream, Loss, Important

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• I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mom, Lying, Home

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• I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

  Zach Braff

  Baby, Fighting, Two

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• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  Edward Irving

  Respect, Heart, Scotland

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• When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious.

  Laozi

  Army, Taoism, Battle

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• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Grief, Heart, Sleep

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Trying, Doe

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• Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Pain, Heart, Fearless

  Rabindranath Tagore (2011). “The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore”, p.47, Tuttle Publishing

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• Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why
  Should wise men grieve to know that they must die?
  The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face
  Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi

  Wise, Men, Light

  Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.58, Penguin

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• It started kind of slow, but we got back into it, bad as you might not want to. You've got to get some type of enthusiasm going out there. It's kind of kicking in as a reality. People only grieve for so long, but I'm starting to understand it.

  Jonas Jennings

  Reality, Long, People

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