Grieving Quotes - Page 27

• All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,
  All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
  All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Sorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

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• At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

  David Sedaris

  Technology, Tree, Looks

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity. Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate. If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people... If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Life, Nice, Pride

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• In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Well, I say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Eye

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• All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn to gems and wrongs repent to diadems Even thy deaths shall live and new dress the soul that once they slew.

  Richard Crashaw

  Pain, Shining, Soul

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.72

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• Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you’d like.

  Lynsay Sands

  Running, Pain, Taken

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• You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Angel, Comfort, May

  Song: In The Arms Of The Angel

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• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, People

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.

  James Van Praagh

  Body, Physical Body

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• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness,
  Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
  Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
  To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
  
  Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble,
  Time will not pause or tarry on his way;
  To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
  Will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
  
  Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces,
  The unspent joy of all the unborn years,
  Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow,
  And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Sarojini Naidu (1916). “The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring”

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• My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Heart, Years, Two Year Olds

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• Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

  Terry Kay

  Wings, Yellow, Bird

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• Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old and lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, his license was current and he had had all of his shots. He is survived by two adults, three children, a cat named Daisy who drove him nuts, and his lifelong companion, Pudgy, whose spaying he always regretted, as well as a host of fleas who have gone elsewhere, probably to Pudgy. He will be missed by all, except Daisy. He never bit anyone, which is more than you can say for most of us.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dog, Children, Cancer

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Beach, Self, Water

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• If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Sleep, Thinking, Meditation

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• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Giving, Priorities

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• My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dog, Brother, Cat

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

  Paulo Coelho

  Courage, Hurt, Husband

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• My wife of 57 years was buried today beside our son, who died in 1941 as a result of a truck accident when he was hitchhiking to take a job. She has longed for him all these years, and now she is with him. I know they are embraced in happiness.

  Terry Kay

  Jobs, Son, Years

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• So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Goodbye, Rejection, Leaving

  Song: Different Drum

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• Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

  Hafez

  Delight, Veils, Spirituality

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• I know that The Other Side, and the spirits who live there, are as real as this earth we live on, and that the only thing separating "her" from "there" is a thinly veiled difference in vibrational frequency.

  Sylvia Browne

  Real, Differences, Earth

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• The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

  Bob Hicok

  Machines, Ears, Stills

  Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.53, Copper Canyon Press

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• I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.

  Sylvia Browne

  Alive, Spirit, Knows

  Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2000). “The Other Side and Back”, p.20, Penguin

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• Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.

  George Vaillant

  Lost Love, Recovery, Past

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