Quotes about grief
grief humanity desolation
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. Mason Cooley
grief long asks
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. Menander
grief healing action
We are turning our grief into winnable actions. Mark Ruffalo
grief way
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. Patti Davis
grief blessing house
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. Oscar Wilde
grief suffering sorrow
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
grief sleep matter
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend? Lucretius
grief dark night
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. Louis Kronenberger
grief joy answers
I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.' Liv Ullmann
grief heart feelings
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. Mehmet Oz
grief soul sorrow
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance. Michel de Montaigne
grief hands wish
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands. Markus Zusak
grief humor fighting
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth. Mark Twain
grief world able
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Alexandre Dumas
grief themselves
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
grief choices matter
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. Jeffrey Eugenides
grief night blue
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.
grief joy unexpected
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Jim Bishop
grief punishment keys
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief. James A. Baldwin
grief soul tears
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. Jacqueline Carey
grief golf wind
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. Jackie Gleason
grief loss men
You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you. Gary Zukav
grief steps seems
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. F. Scott Fitzgerald
grief college men
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
grief giving feelings
Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another. Esther Hicks
grief flower writing
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Eudora Welty
grief fall air
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's not the problem When I'm falling I'm in peace It's only when I hit the ground It causes all the grief Florence Welch
grief young cures
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young. Euripides
grief past love-is
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
grief loss land
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
grief yield
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. Francis Bacon
grief joy bereavement
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
grief humor angel
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love. George W. Bush