Quotes by Grieving If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over! Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett griefwould-begrieving My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. Elizabeth Edwards heartgrievingyears I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. Elizabeth I hategrievinglying Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. Elizabeth McCracken grieftragedygrieving No one will grieve because your lips are dumb. Ella Wheeler Wilcox lipsdumbgrieving No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. Emile M. Cioran griefusegrieving I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size. Emily Dickinson griefeyegrieving You meet a lot of people and have a lot of experiences, and they color you and stay with you - but I'm not the grieving widow. Life is much more complicated and interesting and full of zigs and zags than that. Emmylou Harris colorgrievingpeople To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Erich Fromm mourninggriefgrieving In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life. Esther Perel grievingtwopeople I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job. Eugene Richards hurtgrievingjobs Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith. Eugene O'Neill dogsleepgrieving Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides griefgrievinginspirational Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. Fanny Crosby angelgrievingdeath A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look! Farid al-Din Attar kingsgrievingmen I still grieve for the words unsaid. Something terrible happens when we stop the mouths of the dying before they are dead. A silence grows up between us then, profounder than the grave. If we force the dying to go speechless, the stone dropped into the well will fall forever before the answering splash is heard. Faye Moskowitz growing-upgrievingfall Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. Euripides wastehusbandgrieving I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief Euripides gratitudegriefgrieving Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? Francis Atterbury knowingwisegrieving The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. Francis Bacon parentingfeargrieving«1234567891011»
