Quotes about grief
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. George Eliot
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 individual pay people primarily respects share
People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.
grief martyrs sorrow victory
Your martyrs are our martyrs, your sorrow and grief are our own sorrow and grief, and your victory is our own.
grief heart inward
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. Jane Porter
grief wine sleep
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery. Euripides
grief yesterday tragedy
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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 sadness grieving
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it. Fred Rogers
grief victory aging
Grief is the price of victory. Frank Herbert
grief sea purpose
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
grief snow may
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. George Herbert
grief mines
Was ever grief like mine?
grief physicians lawyer
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
grief compassion mind
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. Jean de la Bruyere
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 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
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 sadness
No one is exempt from grief. Gregory Maguire
grief evil beast
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards. J. K. Rowling
grief men tiny
Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.
grief banking pestilence
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. H. L. Mencken
grief writing joy
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. Grant Morrison
grief house folly
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
grief emotional events
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. Jennifer Armintrout
grief stage stages-of-grief
There are many stages of grief. Jennifer Aniston
grief woe complaining
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. Giacomo Casanova
grief difficult feels
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. Hugh Leonard