Quotes about grief
grief winter years
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. Percy Bysshe Shelley
grief joy skins
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words. Kate Grenville
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. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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 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. Joan Didion
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 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 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
That Woman is in love with her own grief. Gabrielle Zevin
grief frustration feelings
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. James Nachtwey
grief kind villain
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. Holly Black
grief loss unfinished-business
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. Henry Cloud
grief joy greater
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs Johann Kaspar Lavater
grief line money perfect playoff voted
They've already been voted on, so there's no way of stiffing them out of money for the playoff share. You can give them grief all you want, but their line is that they were perfect for the series, that two-thirds of an inning they threw. Aaron Rowand
grief horrible mix mundane outpouring people range
They really range all over the map. Some people are very distressed, and there's this outpouring of grief. For other people, it's kind of an adventure. It's a mix of these horrible things and these mundane things.
grief rain air
A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain. Charles Dickens
grief love poetry zombies
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
grief fate men
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. Homer
grief fighting destiny
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit? Aberjhani
grief loss errors
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through A. R. Ammons
grief land giving
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land. A. E. Housman
grief heart dust
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. Adrienne Rich
grief sorrow incredibles
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. Petrarch
grief argument
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
grief grieving masters
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it. William Shakespeare
grief shadow substance
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
grief excess gains
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
grief hands voice
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
grief men yellow
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.
grief want juliet
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
grief fall fighting
There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race, gender, and so forth - until you eliminate "withdrawal" and "attack" and replace them with "acceptance" and "help." Once you do that and not just talk about it, these other issues will fall into place quickly. They will not fall into place at all unless it is done this way. Dallas Willard
grief water darkness
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else. David Whyte
grief loss odds
I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds. David Mamet