Quotes about grief
grief years tree
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. Philip Larkin
grief useless made
Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief. Laini Taylor
grief
Success doesn't change you... It reveals you Johnny Depp
grief money-cant-buy-happiness mess
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. James Lee Burke
grief heart age
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Philip James Bailey
grief missionary-zeal age
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. Peter Akinola
grief
Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else. Penelope Lively
grief joy given
We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given. Paulo Coelho
grief anxiety behinds
Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
grief thinking risk
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe. Meghan O'Rourke
grief over-you would-be
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
grief men play
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
grief people different
I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.
grief description describing
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
grief disruption persona
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
grief sadness flu
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.
grief people feelings
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
grief believe sadness
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
grief transactions conditions
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
grief pieces demand
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
grief feelings different
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
grief perspective sorrow
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
grief men heaven
Oh, good grief! I’ve never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he’s dying. I’m in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam) I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron) Sherrilyn Kenyon
grief two village
Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)
grief grieving stills
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson
grief degrees madness
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
grief giving special
Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief. Nora Roberts
grief lazy vengeance
Vengeance is a lazy form of grief. Nicole Kidman
grief drunkenness
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good. Mike Mills
grief heart loss
I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. Marianne Williamson
grief thinking age
I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.
grief sadness cells
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us
grief like-love fades
Like love, grief fades in and out. Mason Cooley