Quotes about grief
grief heart mourning
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. Friedrich Schiller
grief heart caring
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it. Jojo Moyes
grief past grieving
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. Lord Byron
grief men self
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control. Napoleon Hill
grief dark matter
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
grief ignorance keys
Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices Og Mandino
grief ignorance self
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live. Og Mandino
grief grieving differences
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same. O. Henry
grief grieving use
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. Emile M. Cioran
grief passion heart
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love. Ellen Glasgow
grief failing endeavor
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress. Ellen Glasgow
grief heart moon
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon. Ellen Glasgow
grief reality murder-victims
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. Eric Schlosser
grief spirit hunger
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance Epictetus
grief men animal
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. Epictetus
grief
There is no grief like heartbreak. Emily Giffin
grief world way
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world. Emily Giffin
grief judging boundaries
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. Jodi Picoult
grief leisure poverty
Small leisure have the poor for grief. John Greenleaf Whittier
grief play car
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again. Mary Higgins Clark
grief sick suffering
God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.
grief heart selfishness
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
grief broken doe
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings Kay Redfield Jamison
grief comes-and-goes
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting Kay Redfield Jamison
grief past hands
We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. Kristin Armstrong
grief flames hands
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed. Margaret Atwood
grief sorrow opinion
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief reality tragedy
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. Rachel Caine
grief past natural-talent
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread. Paulo Coelho
grief doors land
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century. Primo Levi
grief loss identity
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition. Paula White
grief evil torment
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived Ralph Waldo Emerson
grief thinking media
The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could. Seymour Hersh