Quotes by Grieving I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. Gloria Naylor grievinglifebelieve You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives. Glenn Beck mothergrievingfather Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand. Grace Noll Crowell griefgrievinghands nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be. Gregory David Roberts great-lovehalfgrieving I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve. Guy Gavriel Kay i-cansorrygrieving Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter. Hadewijch ferventencountersgrieving For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him. Halldór Laxness and-lovegrievingmen Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real. Hank Azaria reallossgrieving I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical. Harold S. Kushner essencegrievingpeople I'd like the memory of me Helen Lowrie Marshall echoesgrievingmemories What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller womengrievinglife Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. Helen Steiner Rice griefjourneygrieving When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love, a love which is not simply a recollection of a bygone past but a living force which sustains us in the present. Through memory, love transcends the limits of time and offers hope at any moment of our lives. Henri Nouwen darkgrievingmemories What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success. Henry Adams heartgrievinglaughing The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain. Henri Nouwen paingriefgrieving For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. Holly Goldberg Sloan lossgrievingmoving That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blame my mockery you receive; Huntress and splendour of the woodland night, Diana of this world, do not believe. Hilaire Belloc grievingnightbelieve All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow painheartgrieving The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lightgrievingdeath 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 winninggrievingmen«345678910111213»
