Grieving Quotes - Page 30

• Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

  Vikram Seth

  Blessed, Soul, Too Much

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• Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

  Shackerley Marmion

  Grief, Joy, Silent

  Shackerley Marmion (1875). “The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion with Prefatory Memoir: Introduction and Notes”, p.82, Edinburgh : W. Paterson

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• But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time was, when you were alive, we Argives/ honored you as a god, and now down here, I see/ You Lord it over the dead in all your power./ So grieve no more at dying, great Achilles.’ I reassured the ghost, but he broke out protesting,/ ‘No winning words about death to me, shining Odysseus!/ By god, I’d rather slave on earth for another man--/ Some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive—than rule down here over all the breathless dead.

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Shining

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope. This hope is a foretaste of future blessings, of which the soul even now receives direct experience, and so it comes to know in part the surpassing richness of God's bounty, in accordance with the Psalmist's words, 'Taste and know that the Lord is bountiful' (Ps. 34:8). For He is the jubilation of the righteous, the joy of the upright, the gladness of the humble, and the solace of those who grieve because of Him.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other guests painfully uncomfortable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Suicide, Party, Games

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• This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

  Aristophanes

  Men, Hands, Land

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers”

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• Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

  Keanu Reeves

  Change, Grief, Sorrow

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• Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Grief, Littles, Little Things

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• There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

  James Russell Lowell

  Philosophical, Destiny, Wind

  'Democracy and other Addresses' (1887) 'Democracy'

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• We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.

  Joe Biden

  Justice, Care, Hell

  "US - Syria air strikes still possible". Interview with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. September 4, 2014.

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Washington Irving

  Funeral, Bereavement, Solitude

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Grief, Tragedy, Lasts

  Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.

  John Green

  Sad, Pain, Real

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• Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mistake, New Beginnings, Giving

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• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

  Emma Thompson

  Birthday, Broken Heart, Grief

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• When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Christian, Wicked

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

  Richard Rohr

  Men, Knows, Angry

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• Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

  Tryon Edwards

  Wise, Men, Sorrow

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.238, Ravenio Books

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• If things are tough, remember that every flower that ever bloomed had to go through a whole lot of dirt to get there. The almighty Father will use life's reverses to move you forward. So do not keep grieving about a bitter experience. The present is slipping by while you are regretting the past and worrying about the future. Regret will not prevent tomorrow's sorrows; it will only rob today of its strength.

  Barbara Johnson

  Regret, Flower, Adversity

  "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around".

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• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Compassion, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.58, Ultramarine Publishing

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• And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Lying, Moving

  "Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year". Book by Anne Lamott, 1993.

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• Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

  Jim Elliot

  Son, Vision, Desert

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• Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Clouds, Suffering

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 198

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