Quotes about grief
grief causes opinion
Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt. Marcus Aurelius
grief poet loved-ones
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? Kate Morton
grief precise
Ah, grief makes us precise! Leonard Cohen
grief anxiety suffering
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
grief boys long-ago
She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief. Lisa Kleypas
grief heart loss
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. Linda Hamilton
grief sacrifice reality
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. Leo Tolstoy
grief joy soul
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.
grief love-you grieving
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
grief healing compassion
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. Pema Chodron
grief fall healing
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)
grief men speech
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said. Peter S. Beagle
grief two hydra
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
grief fate destiny
Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people. Pythagoras
grief eye two
There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
grief wind weather
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds. Julian Barnes
grief sunshine tunnels
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.
grief heart sleep
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place. Ramana Maharshi
grief rain men
Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
grief evil torment
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
grief way deals
(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to. Laura Branigan
grief struggle thinking
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice. Terry Tempest Williams
grief dare
Grief dares us to love once more.
grief strange paradox
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. Joy Page
grief tunnels light
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time. Joyce Brothers
grief widows drs
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. Josh Billings
grief funeral earth
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is. Joyce Cary
grief suffering sorrow
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Oscar Wilde
grief tears flow
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. Ovid
grief flight draught
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
grief grieving rage
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
grief loss long
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. Pericles
grief echoes mountain
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. Percy Bysshe Shelley