Quotes about grief
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. Frederick William Faber
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 himself smiles spends steals
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief William Shakespeare
grief heard people positive problem
There's the people and friends who want to give you grief about it, but I've heard all positive things, so I have no problem with it. Brandon Phillips
grief guess rather sure taking
I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief than not. Matt Carle
grief hath shadows substance twenty
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
grief master
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
grief horrible mix mundane outpouring people range
They really range all over the map. Some people are very distressed, and there's this outpouring of grief. For other people, it's kind of an adventure. It's a mix of these horrible things and these mundane things.
grief wish
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. Horace
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 people giving
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation. Giles Andreae
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 missing desire
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. Judith Butler
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 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 long relief
Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. Hugo Grotius
grief people shining
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere. Honore de Balzac
grief heart giving
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.