Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Orson Scott Card

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

Clare Bowen

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.

Susanna Kearsley

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.

Christina Rossetti

Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

George Bernard Shaw

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Frederick William Robertson

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

Isadora Duncan

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.

Bede Jarrett

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

Anton Chekhov

I'm in mourning for my life.

Sigmund Freud

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

Maurice Sendak

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Anton Chekhov

Medvienko: Why do you always wear black? Masha: I am in mourning for my life. I am unhappy.

Horace Walpole

Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.

Homer

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

George Herbert

Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.

Joan Didion

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Jay Garner

This is a tough job, and it's very difficult to take people out of a darkness and lead them into light. Once they have been standing in light long enough, their eyes will adjust.

Richard Gallienne

What of the Darkness? Is it very fair?

Anthony Hopkins

We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman.

Alberto Manguel

Darkness promotes speech.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A beam in darkness: let it grow.

Alexander Pope

Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

Andrew Solomon

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

Rumi

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Toby Jones

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration for Hitchcock the filmmaker remains undiminished. He is a giant of the cinema and the darkness in him informs his cinematic language. You can't separate one from the other.