Top 214 Grieving Quotes & Sayings

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

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

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

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

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

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

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

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.

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

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

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.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

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.

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

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

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

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

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.

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.

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

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

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.

I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.

Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.

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

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

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

That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

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