Grieving Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Grieving Quotes from famous persons: Rick Warren, Patti Davis, Laura Wade, Erik Larson, Yaya DaCosta. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Grieving Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like ‘well everything that happens is God’s will.’ That’s nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Rick Warren

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Patti Davis

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?

Laura Wade

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.

Erik Larson

We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you’re grieving, you don’t necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.

Yaya DaCosta

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Cheryl Strayed

Most people, when they lose their dads, they go through a period of mourning and grieving, and time begins to heal their sadness. But we don’t have the opportunity to heal. I know my brother and sister feel the same. The man was probably one of the most photographed people who ever lived.

Nancy Sinatra

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

Elin Nordegren

Now, I’m not positive 24 hours a day. I have my grieving moments. But when I go to a school to speak to a bunch of kids, I get pumped up.

Rudy Ruettiger

It’s unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life’s work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

Sherwin B. Nuland

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they’re frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner’s fault.

Elizabeth McCracken

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

Mike Mills

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

Richard Cohen

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

Hunter Tylo

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It’s hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Kay Redfield Jamison

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Tim O’Brien

In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie.

Kimberly Schlapman

The home funeral – caring for the dead ourselves – changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?

Caitlin Doughty

No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

Alysia Reiner

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.

Patti Davis

Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

Gregory Benford

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

Ian Hislop

Remember that a woman who has given birth to a dead child has given birth and is recovering physically, too. Don’t be afraid of grieving parents.

Elizabeth McCracken

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn’t seriously grieving.

Jennifer Gilmore

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Edward Hirsch

Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it’s important to get beyond that sometimes.

David Lowery

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

Simon Callow

Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.

Mathew Knowles

I’m awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it’s an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will – including doing seminars.

Mariette Hartley

There’s a general impulse to distract the grieving person – as if you could.

Joan Didion

I’m human, we all are – all doctors are – and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you’d get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

Elizabeth Edwards

We’ve enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don’t discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn’t considered morbid or antisocial. But that’s totally gone.

Cate Blanchett

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Martin Puryear

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country’s major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

Bill Moyers

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