Quotes about Grieving

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. Votes: 3

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. Votes: 3

Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world. Votes: 3

Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't. Votes: 3

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the future, who will they be, Grieving in vain for what others had before? Votes: 3

Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways. Votes: 3

Grief is itself a medicine. Votes: 2

Those things that hurt, instruct. Votes: 2

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. Votes: 2

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Votes: 2

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. Votes: 2

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. Votes: 2

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Votes: 2

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. Votes: 2

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Votes: 2

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. Votes: 2

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's. Votes: 2

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. Votes: 2

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Votes: 2

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn. Votes: 2

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful. Votes: 2

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Votes: 2

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility. Votes: 2

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Votes: 2

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Votes: 2

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten. Votes: 2

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you. Votes: 2

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. Votes: 2

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them. Votes: 2

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy. Votes: 2

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. Votes: 2

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end. Votes: 2

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. Votes: 2

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own. Votes: 2

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead. Votes: 2

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored. Votes: 2

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us. Votes: 2

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving. Votes: 2

O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing. Votes: 2

Some of you, unfortunately, will never marry in this life. That turns out to be the case sometimes. If that happens, do not spend your life grieving over it. The world still needs your talents. It needs your contribution. Votes: 2

Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow. Votes: 2

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. Votes: 2

The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt. Votes: 2

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything. Votes: 2

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience. Votes: 2

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Votes: 2

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. Votes: 2

Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time be? In that calm breast whereto our souls are cleaving Shall we not find our loved ones beyond grieving About the hearth-stone of Eternity? Votes: 2

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone. Votes: 2

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait. Votes: 2

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding. Votes: 2

There is no shortcut to grieving. Votes: 0

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives Votes: 0

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. Votes: 0

When equal armies battle, the grieving one will be victorious. Votes: 0

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life. Votes: 0

I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16. Votes: 0

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. Votes: 0

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet. Votes: 0

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving. Votes: 0

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving. Votes: 0

That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is. Votes: 0

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person. Votes: 0

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. Votes: 0

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly. Votes: 0

Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days. Votes: 0

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. Votes: 0

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. Votes: 0

I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving. Votes: 0

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. Votes: 0

Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you. Votes: 0

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back. Votes: 0

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. Votes: 0

How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct? Votes: 0

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving. Votes: 0

So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. Votes: 0

There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers. Votes: 0

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show Votes: 0

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving. Votes: 0

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents. Votes: 0

Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it. Votes: 0

You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning. Votes: 0

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true. Votes: 0

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him Votes: 0

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. Votes: 0

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls. Votes: 0

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors. Votes: 0

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. Votes: 0

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What do you think of that? It's stopped raining." I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. Votes: 0

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere. Votes: 0

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me. Votes: 0

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Votes: 0

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. Votes: 0

I believe we recover from loss by facing the loss, grieving, going deep inside ourselves (hopefully with a guide) and re-emerging to live and love again. Votes: 0

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don't be afraid of grieving parents. Votes: 0

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again. Votes: 0

I'll be a grieving mom until I die because of the lies that took my son, ... I plan on keeping this up until the troops are brought home. Votes: 0

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. Votes: 0

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving. Votes: 0

Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself. Votes: 0

Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning. Votes: 0

But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them. Votes: 0

If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear. Votes: 0

It's important for us not to lose sight of the fact that this is a family that's grieving and there's been a tremendous loss. And we all have to rally around that piece of it. Votes: 0

Someday you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing... Votes: 0

All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream. Votes: 0