Grieving Quotations | Page 4

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. [Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I'm helping with the grieving process, ... That's what we do. It will help pull people together. This is more important than anything I've ever created. The work is painful, but I have not been this inspired since I began my career. This is what I'm supposed to be doing and I've just put my heart in it.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

It's bittersweet, because we are still grieving for Tom, and it's so fresh that it opens wounds a little bit. But that doesn't take away from our joy that the other three men have been released and are safe.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.