Best grief & mourn Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.”

Feels Would Be Faces Grief Wonder Written Over You Your Face Taboo Mourn Strangeness Fathom Bruised Hieroglyphics

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”

Book:Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

Source: Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

“I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.”

Grief Wind Paint Shade Twilight Grey Bereavement Mourn

Author:Marge Piercy

“Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.”

Should Dream Lasts Joy Grief Sadness Fairs Wounds Woe Mourn

Book:The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle

Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle

“To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.”

Grief Failing Endeavor Distress Mourn Distressing

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.”

Grief Mourn Posture Astonishment

Book:Meatless Days

Source: Meatless Days

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love.”

“From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.”

Children Has Beens Ends Powerful Grief Saws Son Needed Gun Commitment Victim My Son Transformed Mourn

Author:Azim Khamisa

“Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.”

Death Grief Mourn

Book:A Cynthia Ozick reader

Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”

Author:Washington Irving

“The only cure for grief is action.”

Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon

“Though lovers be lost love shall not.”

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

Source: Complete Works

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.”

Different Reality Happens Religion Suffering Courses Imagination Grief Accepting Expectations Program Blessed Oneself Things Happen Curse Bereavement Mourn Grief Observed

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.”

Feelings Together Faces Form Effort Grief Break Embrace Isolation Hopeless Survivor Ritual Gestures Solitary Mourn Break Through Stand Alone

Author:Steven Erikson

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

Littles Grief Grieving Little Things Mourn

Author:Alexandra Fuller

“To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness”

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.”

Feels Mind Soul Left Language Grief Existence Taken Sadness Sky Taste Angel Absence Prophet Flavor Weeping Mourn

Author:Rumi

“When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”

Way Past Next Grief Gone Seeing Worst Late Draws Fortune Stealing Injury Thieves Remedy Mourn Mischief Mockery

Author:William Shakespeare

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

Christian Death Grief Guilt Painful Mourning Companion Bereavement Mourn Griefing Death Grief Grief And Death Grief And Mourning Death And Mourning Death Mourning Mourning Death Painful Death Guilt Free

Author:Coco Chanel

“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

Ifs Should Heart Soul Body Answers Grief Dying Flower Remains Seeds Grieving Mourning Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Remembrance Bereavement Memorial Mourn Condolences My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Condolence Message Sympathy Card Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy My Condolences Death Remembrance Loved One Dying Death Memorial Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Death And Mourning Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Condolences Poems Death Mourning Mourning A Loss Mourning Death

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.”

Pain Remember Process Grief Gone Letting Go Who You Are Heal Grieving Mourn Grief And Healing Sorting Grief Healing Grieving And Healing Grieving Process

Author:Rachel Naomi Remen

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

Children Grief Sorrow Mourning Grief And Loss Bereavement Mourn Condolences Griefing Deceased Grief Loss Grief And Mourning Grief Comfort Help With Grief Losing Love Our Condolences Deep Grief

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.”

Whole Stories Death Forget Grief Modern Fashion Husband Details Distress Bereavement Mourn Speechless Dazed Modern Woman

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.”

People Thinking Has Beens Different Real Form Individual Hurt Grief Fans Football Strange Harder Clubs Convinced Paradox Mourn Football Fan

Author:Nick Hornby

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