Grieving Quotes - Page 15

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

No one should have to grieve alone.

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don’t. They never can. There is no perfect. There’s just different. But different can be wonderful.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated.

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.

There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

Culturally, now, we're really tight around death, and as a result I think people miss out on a lot of the beautiful aspects of the end of life process that can be very helpful for the grieving process, that can be a really beautiful part of transition of life that we don't get to experience because it's not in the conversation.