Quotes about grief
grief owner proud sorrows stoop
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop William Shakespeare
grief book sleep
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out. Richelle Mead
grief cutting grace
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep. Rebecca West
grief speak wells
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
grief sadness sentimentality
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs
grief loss way
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. William Wycherley
grief school home
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. William Shatner
grief men joy
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. Robert E. Lee
grief light silence
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Samuel Daniel
grief florida needs
Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole. Wanda Sykes
grief passion men
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something. W. H. Auden
grief grieving medicine
Grief is itself a medicine. William Cowper
grief men people
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century. Vasily Grossman
grief good-day grieving
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone. Ursula K. Le Guin
grief skulls broken
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow. Roberto Bolano
grief mean years
All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
grief order people
President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. Robert Fisk
grief silent
The greatest griefs are silent. Wally Lamb
grief grieving language
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. Sarah Dessen
grief grieving sorrow
Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.
grief anchors bereavement
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
grief sorrow would-be
There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. William Faulkner
grief men causes
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
grief joy cabins
The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin. Yuri Gagarin
grief wind soul
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. Wilfred Owen
grief passion men
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious. Wassily Kandinsky
grief secret calamity
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. Voltaire
grief men ideas
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
grief stronger world
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. William Ralph Inge
grief dark night
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. William C. Bryant
grief joy pleasure
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. Wilhelm von Humboldt
grief sadness wind
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.
grief joy sorrow
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. Walter Scott