Quotes about grief
grief feet joy
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all! Emily Dickinson
grief hath shadows substance twenty
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows William Shakespeare
grief master
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
grief heard people positive problem
There's the people and friends who want to give you grief about it, but I've heard all positive things, so I have no problem with it. Brandon Phillips
grief men way
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli
grief men political
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a Prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case
grief loss past
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. Jodi Picoult
grief thinking ugly
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
grief judging boundaries
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
grief earth healed
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
grief two
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.
grief mean joy
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
grief leisure poverty
Small leisure have the poor for grief. John Greenleaf Whittier
grief grieving
Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. John Green
grief sound ordinary
Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day. Cassandra Clare
grief missing desire
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. Judith Butler
grief joy soul
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them. Joseph Joubert
grief tears
Grief isn't all tears. Patti Smith
grief grieving hands
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
grief people giving
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
grief sorrow suffering
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. Patanjali
grief terrible over-it
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. P. D. James
grief golf games
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro? P. G. Wodehouse
grief tears satisfaction
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. Ovid
grief delight pages
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. Paul Engle
grief moving book
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on. Marya Hornbacher
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 airplane fighting
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions. Paul Goodman
grief heart men
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. Pat Conroy
grief heart loss
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void. Pam Brown
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 sea islands
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost. Kristin Hannah
grief loss self
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. Kelsey Grammer