Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elif Safak

After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

Dominic Cooper

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Dodie Smith

Death is too much to ask of the living.

Anne Lamott

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Anne Lamott

But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.

Anna Akhmatova

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

Albert Camus

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Chuck Jordan

The thing that separates him from a lot of linemen is his mobility. He's got real good feet for a tall guy.

Daniel Kerr

Now I've got 3 feet of water, so I can't plant.

Ben Crenshaw

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

Charles Kennedy

I will go out of this world feet first with my Lib Dem membership card in my pocket.

Richard G. Scott

Lay the burden at the feet of the Savior.

Bruce Campbell

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

Edward Abbey

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

E. B. White

Don't put your feet on the table, ... You know better.

Philip Gonsalves

Don't tell anybody, but by Monday you could play in the snow in the mountains. We could see a foot, maybe more, places like Palomar Mountain. The higher elevations could get about three feet of snow by Sunday evening.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

David Mamet

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

David Platt

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.