Quotes about grief
grief writing stories
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed. Winifred Holtby
grief empires watches
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. Winston Churchill
grief resolve
My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence Rick Riordan
grief sitting-still space
I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. Veronica Roth
grief guilt
Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
grief play tricks
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
grief heart breathing
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
grief book heart
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief. Robert Green Ingersoll
grief sadness feelings
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó. Sandra Cisneros
grief joy filled
I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
grief doors guests
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
grief bitter jest
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Samuel Johnson
grief species idleness
Grief is a species of idleness.
grief love-is grieving
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so. Ruth Graham
grief flower losing-a-loved-one
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.
grief people suffering
I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that. Ruth Gordon
grief people political
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. Robert Jensen
grief sadness taste
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. William Hazlitt
grief littles bears
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
grief world doe
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. Wendell Berry
grief taxes forethought
Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
grief believe forever
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
grief blessing men
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
grief worry grace
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
grief heart caring
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's. W. Somerset Maugham
grief men joy
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. William Osler
grief no-love ifs
If there were no Love, there'd be no grief Zig Ziglar
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. Horace
grief seek
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake
grief guess rather sure taking
I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief than not. Matt Carle
grief emotion spontaneity
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. Morena Baccarin
grief heart ideas
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. Marcel Proust
grief suffering doe
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.