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.

Martin Puryear

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

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Meghan O'Rourke

There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

Mike Mills

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

Mason Cooley

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

Barbara Kingsolver

Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Buster Keaton

If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.

Diane Ackerman

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.

Chris Evert

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Barack Obama

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Bruce Chatwin

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

David J. C. MacKay

We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

Turkish Proverb

Sorrow is to the soul what the worm is to wood

Anthony Trollope

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

Anne Sexton

sorrow is easier than guilt.

David Paul

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

Amelia Barr

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Alfred Adler

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Amin Maalouf

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

William Shakespeare

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.