Grieving Quotes - Page 28

• By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

  Betty Smith

  Light, Rivers, Way

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Happiness, New Year, Hope

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

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• Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering?

  Chinua Achebe

  Pain, Men, Funeral

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• America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

  Patti Davis

  Country, Father, Taken

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• Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Fashion, People, Ordinary

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• To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.

  Prentice Mulford

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.223, e-artnow

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• I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Space, Organization

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of the Steamship Quaker City's Pleasure Excursion to Europe and the Holy Land : with Descriptions of Countries, Nations, Incidents and Adventures, as They Appeared to the Author”, p.239

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Education, Children, Teaching

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• O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

  Du Fu

  Travel, Ancient, Should

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• I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Falling In Love, School, Cutting

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• Every great loss demands that we choose life again. We need to grieve in order to do this. The pain we have not grieved over will always stand between us and life. When we don't grieve, a part of us becomes caught in the past like Lot's wife who, because she looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Loss, Past

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• These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

  Tennessee Williams

  Blood, Want, Helping

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.275, New Directions Publishing

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• Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."

  George W. Bush

  Prayer, Children, Shadow Of Death

  9/11 Address to the Nation, delivered 11 September, Oval Office, Washington, D.C.

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• The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Humor, Men

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

  Joanna Macy

  Peace, Heart, Break

  Joanna Macy (1983). “Despair and personal power in the nuclear age”, New Society Pub

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• ...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help... And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.

  Jane Hamilton

  Pain, Grief, Bereavement

  Jane Hamilton (2014). “The Book of Ruth”, p.323, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Grief, Rose, Burning

  Zbigniew Herbert (2014). “The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

  Sarah Waters

  Sad, Moving On, Grief

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• No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Believe, Cheer Up

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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Atoms, Unnecessary, Driven

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• That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

  Sarah Dessen

  Grief, Language, Spokes

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.70, Penguin

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• The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

  Junichiro Tanizaki

  Girl, Ordinary, Gone

  Junichiro Tanizaki (1957). “The Makioka Sisters”

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• Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sorrow

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “South Moon Under”, p.70, Booklassic

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