Quotes about grief
grief mean alive
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist. Julian Barnes
grief levels-of-life stories
Every love story is a potential grief story.
grief fall writing
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
grief mean names
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
grief patterns firsts
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
grief loss years
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss. Mark Twain
grief sadness men
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
grief fate play
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met. Mary Renault
grief soup-kitchens cyprus
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. Nicos Anastasiades
grief long different
He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. Nicholas Sparks
grief forever want
Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.
grief way helping
I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.
grief order amusement
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. Miguel de Unamuno
grief immature causes
Immature strategy is the cause of grief. Miyamoto Musashi
grief unhappy language
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language? Publilius Syrus
grief tears ready
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
grief years rangers
I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life Paul Gascoigne
grief heart selfishness
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
grief scary scary-things
Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down. Lea Michele
grief chance cry
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. Lauren Oliver
grief past roles
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
grief facts things-change
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--
grief buried sinking
Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
grief disbelief loses
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
grief people gone
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong. Keanu Reeves
grief grieving shapes
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
grief people needs
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
grief interesting people
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out.
grief thinking awareness
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.
grief thinking people
I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse.
grief broken doe
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings
grief comes-and-goes
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting
grief past hands
We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. Kristin Armstrong