Grieving Quotes

• No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • Time
  • Grief
  • Rose

• No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Dumb
  • Lips
  • Grieving

• I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Process
  • Plan
  • Medicine

• Tears water our growth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Tears

• In a world where there is so much to grieve and so little good to take? I grieve nothing. I take everything.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • World
  • Good
  • Littles

• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Death

• And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Earth
  • Sorrow
  • Life-and-death

• It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Time
  • She
  • Death

• And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Humans

• I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges of roses. Pink roses. Suddenly I felt the most powerful feeling of peace, and I had the thought that death, if it means an absorption into a reality like the one that was before me, might be all right.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Long
  • Death
  • Reality

• I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.

  

  Don Everly
  • Brother
  • Difficult
  • Mourning

• Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

  

  Saib Tabrizi
  • People
  • Grieving
  • Departed

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

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • My Life
  • Grieving
  • Meadows

• Nay, do not grieve tho' life be full of sadness, Dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief, Nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty To lotus blossom and ashoka leaf. Nay, do not pine, tho' life be dark with trouble, Time will not pause or tarry on his way; To-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter, Will soon be some forgotten yesterday. Nay, do not weep; new hopes, new dreams, new faces, The unspent joy of all the unborn years, Will prove your heart a traitor to its sorrow, And make your eyes unfaithful to their tears.

  

  Sarojini Naidu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Dream

• For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Grief
  • Grieving
  • Survivor

• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Cry
  • Breakup

• 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.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Live
  • Leaving
  • Sense

• I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Challenge

• Grieve not that I die young.

  

  Lady Flora Hastings
  • Die
  • Sad
  • Passing Away

• He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sorrow
  • Causes
  • Grieving

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Lost
  • Wife

• Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Water
  • Grief
  • Grieving

• 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
  • Wonder
  • Exception

• We ain't never duckin' beef, bitch, we not vegan My lil' niggas 'bout that action, they be Glock squeezin' Red beams on his head, now his top leakin' I heard that boy got man down and now the opps grievin'

  

  Polo G
  • Action
  • Never
  • Vegan

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