Quotes about grief
grief order essence
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Victor Hugo
grief men sides
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
grief self confusion
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. Vernon Howard
grief perfect guilt
It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt. Veronica Roth
grief movement helping
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
grief flying sorrow
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. Richard Bach
grief grieving trying
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. Robert Frost
grief political poetry
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
grief flower eden
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
grief men feelings
Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings. Robert Bly
grief sorrow speak
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. Thomas Otway
grief people matter
Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people. Thomas Horn
grief blessed leisure
No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. Thomas Hood
grief grieving funeral
When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself Thomas S. Monson
grief sunny-weather sorrow
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
grief grieving language
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. Sarah Dessen
grief grieving sorrow
Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.
grief anchors bereavement
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
grief heart blow
The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves? Sara Teasdale
grief dark tears
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
grief land swim
I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land. Samuel Rutherford
grief bereavement
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Samuel Johnson
grief exercise useless
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
grief heart fate
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
grief men anxiety
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being. Robert Anton Wilson
grief wine liberty
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. Richard Lovelace
grief writing thinking
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true. Richard Flanagan
grief comfort depth
Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief. Tullian Tchividjian
grief sitting-still space
I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
grief guilt
Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
grief play tricks
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
grief heart breathing
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
grief book heart
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief. Robert Green Ingersoll