Quotes about grief
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 heart sleep
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell
grief healing emotion
Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
grief loss want
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
grief feelings grace
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
grief acceptance feelings
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
grief losing-a-loved-one loss
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
grief heart loss
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Louise Hay
grief boys long-ago
She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief. Lisa Kleypas
grief heart loss
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. Linda Hamilton
grief sacrifice reality
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. Leo Tolstoy
grief joy soul
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.
grief love-you grieving
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
grief sorrow depth
It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid. Pearl S. Buck
grief mountain finals
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
grief loss identity
I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition. Paula White
grief writing plot
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. Peter Temple