Quotes about grief
grief ambition hands
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. Horace Greeley
grief son blood
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body! Homer
grief fate men
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
grief long joy
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
grief blessing two
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
grief involved share whether
I am with the American people. I share their pain. I share their grief, whether he was involved or not.
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.
grief heart men
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. J. R. R. Tolkien
grief long people
At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.
grief fate loss
And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.
grief heart forget
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
grief fate humanity
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty. Immanuel Kant
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 airplane fighting
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions. Paul Goodman
grief heart men
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. Pat Conroy
grief heart loss
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void. Pam Brown
grief sick suffering
God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.
grief years rangers
I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life Paul Gascoigne
grief heart selfishness
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
grief scary scary-things
Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down. Lea Michele
grief chance cry
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. Lauren Oliver
grief past roles
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
grief order amusement
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. Miguel de Unamuno
grief immature causes
Immature strategy is the cause of grief. Miyamoto Musashi
grief unhappy language
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language? Publilius Syrus
grief tears ready
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
grief men way
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli
grief men political
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a Prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case
grief loss past
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. Jodi Picoult
grief thinking ugly
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
grief judging boundaries
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.