Grieve Quotes

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

Love, Time, Fear

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
William Wordsworth

Strength, Nothing, Find

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

Person, Why, Involved

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Richard M. Nixon

Down, Give, Find

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi

Another, Lose, Round

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Michel de Montaigne

Alone, Mind, Thought

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

Greatest, Past, Nothing

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
Jim Elliot

God, Done, Rather

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
Sophocles

Hate, Yourself, Forget

Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Morrie Schwartz

Yourself, Again, Once

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
Dave Reichert

Family, Time, Knowledge

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
Pliny the Elder

Fear, May, Happen

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
Russell Crowe

Friendship, Time, Beautiful

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
Michael Sheen

Funny, Death, Sad

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
Melinda Gates

Love, Women, True

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

Done, Terrorism, Reflecting

I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
Dave Reichert

Family, Time, War

I believe that everyone can appreciate the right of a family to grieve the loss of a loved one in peace, regardless of anyone's position on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dave Reichert

Peace, Family, War

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
John Bacon

Faith, Strength, Death

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
Charlotte Rampling

Difficult, Begin, Taught

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

Repent, Sigh, Recede

You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you're getting yourself into it. And of course he doesn't listen to me and he adopts this child.
Oliver Platt

Yourself, Wife, Child

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy

Past, Since, Loss

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
Anna Akhmatova

Death, Heart, Woman

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