Quotes about grief
grief years three
Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. Karen Kingsbury
grief heart sleep
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell
grief healing emotion
Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
grief loss want
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
grief feelings grace
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
grief acceptance feelings
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
grief losing-a-loved-one loss
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
grief heart loss
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Louise Hay
grief adversity loss
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. Lou Reed
grief tears body
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. Lois Lowry
grief ends knowledge-wisdom
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope Lloyd Alexander
grief emotional long
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through. Madeleine L'Engle
grief feet water
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
grief luxury determined
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. Lucy Maud Montgomery
grief wife heaven
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.] Louis XIV
grief giving suffering
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new. Louise Bogan
grief heart cutting
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. John Ford
grief forever bereavement
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it. Joyce Carol Oates
grief believe bereavement
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. Judith McNaught
grief turns knows
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. Joan Didion
grief
Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.
grief interesting sanity
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
grief loss dark
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. John Milton
grief saint lord
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs. John Calvin
grief mean adversity
Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.
grief loss childhood
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. John Berger
grief worry rewards
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. Johann Georg Hamann
grief thinking suffering
Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return, Geoff Hoon
grief son faces
My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son. Gabriela Mistral
grief heart pride
We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation. Francois Fenelon
grief weapons doe
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly. Lois McMaster Bujold
grief hands long
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end. Lyndon B. Johnson
grief flower yellow
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! Lord Byron