Quotes About Grieve

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it.

Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?

If our consciousnesses can conceive it or our hearts grieve it, someone has composed a reference tidily summing the perfunctory steps to enlightenment. It would seem that we have merely traded one saviour for another, another someone to tell us how. We

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I sat quiet, silent, angry, refusing to grieve, because it seemed like to do so would be giving everyone what the wanted.

You go forth with joy to gather flowers for your queen in winter, and grieve when you can find none, and cannot understand why they do not grow.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you. – Antonio Porchia, Voices . Translated by W.S. Merwin. (Copper Canyon Press; Bilingual edition April 1, 2003)

Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently to keep this from happening. They make every problem in their relationship into something they could have prevented.

If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.

You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

It must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.

It seemed to him that life was but a trouble at best, and he more than half envied Jimmy Hodges, so lately released; it must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more. If he only had a clean Sunday-school record he could be willing to go, and be done with it all.

Money was no cure for sorrow, Alec reflected, but it did allow one to grieve in relative comfort.

Cruelty is a kind of cowardice. Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.

Cruel laughter is the way cowards cry when they're not alone, and causing pain is how they grieve.

Love always triumphs over what we call death. That's why there's no need to grieve for our loved ones, because they continue to be loved and remain by our side.

We steward the presence of God by learning to obey the commands "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit" (Ephesians 4:30) and "Do not quench the Spirit" (1 Thessalonians 5:19). We grieve Him when we do something wrong; we quench Him when we fail to do what is right, stopping the flow of His love and power that comes from the Father.

We quench or grieve the Holy Spirit by refusing His authority over us. In other words, by choosing not to yield to Him.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.

How will you find eternal life To bring back to your friend? He pondered busily, as if It were just a matter of getting down to work Or making plans for an excursion. Then he relaxed, as if there were no use In this reflection. I would grieve At all that may befall you still If I did not know you must return And bury your own loss and build Your world anew with your own hands. I envy you your freedom.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.