494 Quotes About Grieving

The consolations of the vulgar are bitter in the royal ear. Let physicians and confectioners and servants in the great houses be judged by what they have done, and even by what they have meant to do; the great people themselves are judged by what they are. I have been told that lions, trapped and shut up in cages, grieve from shame more than from hunger.

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

Better one suffer than a nation grieve.

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

I always thought I'd be the one to go first. ... The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil Everly. My wife Adela and I are touched by all the tributes we're seeing for Phil and we thank you for allowing us to grieve in private at this incredibly difficult time.

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.

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

Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness

Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.