Grieving Quotes - Page 32

• I think that music has always been restricted to media. The LP is an antiquated form, and the CD is now an antiquated form, and there's no sense grieving. Music is forever, there will always be songs. It's exciting that we're not limited to the media any more. I don't hold a precious view of my work, that it exists outside of social constructs or the confines of a platform.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Song, Thinking, Views

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Artist, Dust, Piano

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• Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Life And Death, Bird, Cracks

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• When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

  Mary Douglas

  Done, Terrorism, Reflecting

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• The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

  Kate Mosse

  Loss, Echoes, Space

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• Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

  Lucy Lawless

  Happy Birthday, Happiness, Motherhood

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Funeral

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

  John Adams

  Grief, Heart, Sadness

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.768, Library of America

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

  Thomas Moore

  Sympathy, Broken Heart, Pain

  Thomas Moore (1835). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc”, p.40

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• The sorrow which has no vent in tears
  may make other organs weep.

  Henry Maudsley

  Inspirational, Sad, Grief

  Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”

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• I ask you to try something. If someone grieves you, or dishonors you, or takes something of yours, then pray like this: "Lord, we are all your creatures. Pity your servants, and turn them to repentance," and then you will perceptibly bear grace in your soul. Induce your heart to love your enemies, and the Lord, seeing your good will, shall help you in all things, and will Himself show you experience. But whoever thinks evil of his enemies does not have love for God and has not known God.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Two, People, Mind

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Years, Forever

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

  Anne Rice

  Light, Jewels, Giving

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books

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• Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

  Orson Scott Card

  Integrity, Cutting, Men

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.790, Macmillan

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• You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Country, Regret

  "Jon Stewart To Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: ‘F—k You’" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

  Tony Kushner

  Forever, Might, Wonder

  Tony Kushner (2005). “Homebody/Kabul: Final Revised Version”, p.39, Theatre Communications Group

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• Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Doors, Order

  "The Last Continent". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Life, Dream, Strong Women

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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• Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Laughter, Children, Wall

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• For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

  Johannes Tauler

  Love, Spring, Men

  "The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: With Twenty-five of His Sermons".

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• Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing how people grieve. I am just saying it's painful, it's not your fault and it's so common. Well if it's so common - let's talk about it and open a dialogue where people know what to say to you.

  Laura Benanti

  Mean, People, Events

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

  Patrick Pearse

  Ready, Ready To Die, Dies

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