Grieving quotes

Grieving

499 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker

"When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside."

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Ovid Poet
Grieving

"Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength."

Grief Grieving Rage
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Grieving

"In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain."

Heart Dark Grieving
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Marcel Proust Novelist
Grieving

"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."

Death Grieving Filled In
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Grieving

"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"

Grief Grieving Mourning
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
Grieving

"In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God."

Thinking Giving Grieving
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Socrates Philosopher
Grieving

"Do not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self."

Self Acting Grieving
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Grieving

"When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find salvation in a remembered love, a love which is not simply a recollection of a bygone past but a living force which sustains us in the present. Through memory, love transcends the limits of time and offers hope at any moment of our lives."

Memories Dark Grieving
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Ruth Graham Author, Speaker
Grieving

"Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so."

Love Is Grief Grieving
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Grieving

"I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."

Heaven Leaving Grieving
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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Grieving

"Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure."

Joy Forever Grieving
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