Quotes about grief
grief doors
Death is a door life opens.
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 believe rose
I don't want to. Believe me. But I can't help it. Rose said in time, I'll learn the control to keep his feelings out, but I can't do it now. And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place. What happened between him and Rose . . . it tears him apart. Richelle Mead
grief usual last-sacrifice
So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.
grief book sleep
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.
grief tears example
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Rebecca West
grief cutting grace
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.
grief joy feelings
Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss. Umberto Eco
grief speak wells
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
grief resolve
My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence Rick Riordan
grief tears flow
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. Ovid
grief flight draught
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.
grief grieving rage
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
grief loss long
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. Pericles
grief echoes mountain
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
grief winter years
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
grief light darkness
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
grief two joy
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body. Mary Oliver
grief love-is pay
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. Mary Doria Russell
grief progress hard
It's hard to make progress with grief. Martin Amis
grief men envy
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity? Pietro Metastasio
grief would-be inward
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].
grief grieving bereavement
One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille
grief reality tragedy
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. Rachel Caine
grief past natural-talent
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread. Paulo Coelho
grief essence guilt
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated. Quentin Crisp
grief doors land
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century. Primo Levi
grief evil feelings
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. Plutarch
grief our-love want
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. Phillips Brooks
grief ease
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. Nathaniel Hawthorne
grief people want
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
grief plunge cosette
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. Victor Hugo
grief sorrow radiance
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.