Top 1200 Those Grieving Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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?

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

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

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

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

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

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

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

For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things th

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

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

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

We take care of those who are grieving, and when that's finished, they should know: We will follow them to the gates of hell until they are brought to justice. Because hell is where they will reside. Hell is where they will reside.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

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.

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

There is no shortcut to grieving.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

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

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

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what I've discovered is that the lifelong fear of grief keeps us in a barren, isolated place, and that 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.