Quotes about grief
grief mind strongest
...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. George R. R. Martin
grief tears guilt
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
grief struggle fall
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. George Eliot
grief sadness mean
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room. Fernando Pessoa
grief recovery self
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. Henri Frederic Amiel
grief ears mourn
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn. Helen Keller
grief losing-a-loved-one loss
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
grief new-beginnings each-day
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.
grief love-is effort
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
grief silence suffering
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
grief heart flesh
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. Geoffrey Chaucer
grief reflection blood
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
grief grateful eye
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you
grief feels
No one feels another’s grief... Franz Schubert
grief joy understanding
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
grief joy world
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.
grief soul sorrow
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. George Herbert
grief losing-a-loved-one cry
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
grief sea weeping
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. Isaac Watts
grief sadness joy
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. Inga Muscio
grief hole-in-my-heart over-it
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. Jeanette Winterson
grief past greater
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
grief years stones
I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. Jennifer Weiner
grief law mind
The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. Jennifer James
grief hopeless darkening
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten. Frederick William Faber
grief wings heaven
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
grief men soul
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. Frederick William Robertson
grief grieving mourning
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Erich Fromm
grief eye would-be
To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them. Emma Bull
grief missing absence
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence. Gerald Brenan
grief fuel fool
beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing. Gwendolyn Brooks
grief mind all-time
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
grief thinking suffering
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time. Gwyneth Paltrow