Quotes about grief
grief healing compassion
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. Pema Chodron
grief fall healing
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy. (10)
grief men speech
The unicorn halted in her slow, desperate round of the cage, realizing for the first time that the magician understood her speech. He smiled, and she saw that his face was frighteningly young for a grown man-untraveled by time, unvisited by grief or wisdom. "I know you," he said. Peter S. Beagle
grief two hydra
Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. Pedro Calderon de la Barca
grief fate destiny
Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people. Pythagoras
grief eye two
There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
grief wind weather
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds. Julian Barnes
grief accepting inefficiency
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. Greg Bear
grief felt assured
Griefs assured are felt before they come. John Dryden
grief ocean weight
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean. John Banville
grief believe bereavement
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. Judith McNaught
grief joy skins
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words. Kate Grenville
grief years three
Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. Karen Kingsbury
grief may violence
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy Joseph Conrad
grief poet loved-ones
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? Kate Morton
grief precise
Ah, grief makes us precise! Leonard Cohen
grief anxiety suffering
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
grief abba
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. Lasse Hallstrom
grief strange paradox
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. Joy Page
grief tunnels light
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time. Joyce Brothers
grief widows drs
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. Josh Billings
grief funeral earth
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is. Joyce Cary
grief suffering sorrow
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Oscar Wilde
grief golf games
I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro? P. G. Wodehouse
grief tears satisfaction
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. Ovid
grief delight pages
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage. Paul Engle
grief moving book
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on. Marya Hornbacher
grief play car
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again. Mary Higgins Clark
grief airplane fighting
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions. Paul Goodman
grief heart men
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough. Pat Conroy
grief heart loss
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void. Pam Brown
grief sick suffering
God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.
grief men way
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli