Quotes about grief
grief earth healed
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? Jodi Picoult
grief two
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief. Jodi Picoult
grief mean joy
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. Jodi Picoult
grief leisure poverty
Small leisure have the poor for grief. John Greenleaf Whittier
grief people gone
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong. Keanu Reeves
grief grieving shapes
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. Keanu Reeves
grief people needs
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
grief interesting people
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through and it really helps you out. Kay Redfield Jamison
grief thinking awareness
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth. Kay Redfield Jamison
grief thinking people
I don't think grief of grief in a medical way at all. I think that I and many of my colleagues, are very concerned when grief becomes pathological, that there is no question that grief can trigger depression in vulnerable people and there is no question that depression can make grief worse. Kay Redfield Jamison
grief broken doe
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings Kay Redfield Jamison
grief comes-and-goes
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting Kay Redfield Jamison
grief past hands
We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. Kristin Armstrong
grief purpose lessons
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief. Oprah Winfrey
grief silence silent
In all the silent manliness of grief. Oliver Goldsmith
grief agony mind
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy. Oliver Goldsmith
grief flames hands
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed. Margaret Atwood
grief doe human-nature
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief knows can-do
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief hair sorrow
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief doe
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.] Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief tears olives
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief sorrow opinion
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief pay world
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. Margaret Deland
grief facts things-change
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen-- Lauren Oliver
grief buried sinking
Grief is like sinking, like being buried. Lauren Oliver
grief disbelief loses
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. Lauren Oliver
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. Oscar Wilde
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