Quotes on Grieving

What is there to do when people die - people so dear and rare - but bring them back by remembering?

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

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

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within us and, if persisted in, to grieve the Holy Spirit into silence.

Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.