Quotes about grief
grief difficult feels
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. Hugh Leonard
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 grieving mourning
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness Erich Fromm
grief eye would-be
To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them. Emma Bull
grief steps seems
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. F. Scott Fitzgerald
grief college men
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
grief sea weeping
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. Isaac Watts
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 seek
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake
grief missing absence
We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence. Gerald Brenan
grief fuel fool
beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing. Gwendolyn Brooks
grief mind all-time
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
grief thinking suffering
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time. Gwyneth Paltrow
grief heart moon
If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart. Jack Kornfield
grief adversity loss
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. Lou Reed
grief tears body
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. Lois Lowry
grief ends knowledge-wisdom
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope Lloyd Alexander
grief emotional long
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through. Madeleine L'Engle
grief feet water
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
grief luxury determined
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. Lucy Maud Montgomery
grief wife heaven
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.] Louis XIV
grief giving suffering
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new. Louise Bogan
grief heart cutting
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. John Ford
grief forever bereavement
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it. Joyce Carol Oates
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