Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal...Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

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

My lodging is on the cold ground, And hard, very hard, is my fare, But that which grieves me more Is the coldness of my dear.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

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.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.

One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.

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.

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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?

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

We can bolster human spirits, clothe cold bodies, feed hungry people, comfort grieving hearts, and lift to new heights precious souls.

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish his rivals all in Hell.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.

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.

Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.

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