Quotes about grief
grief sadness feelings
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó. Sandra Cisneros
grief joy filled
I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.
grief doors guests
Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
grief bitter jest
Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Samuel Johnson
grief species idleness
Grief is a species of idleness.
grief love-is grieving
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so. Ruth Graham
grief flower losing-a-loved-one
I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.
grief people suffering
I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that. Ruth Gordon
grief people political
People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others. Robert Jensen
grief skulls broken
When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow. Roberto Bolano
grief mean years
All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
grief silence world
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. Sarah Orne Jewett
grief joy overcoming
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief. Vittorio Alfieri
grief light silence
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Samuel Daniel
grief florida needs
Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole. Wanda Sykes
grief passion men
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something. W. H. Auden
grief grieving medicine
Grief is itself a medicine. William Cowper
grief men people
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century. Vasily Grossman
grief good-day grieving
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone. Ursula K. Le Guin
grief wind soul
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. Wilfred Owen
grief mean thinking
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It’s not like it’s in me and I’m going to deal with it. It’s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door. Stephen Colbert
grief support world
If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault. Thomas Pynchon
grief self envy
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. Thomas Hobbes
grief angel men
What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven. Thomas Goodwin
grief pride play
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere. Thomas Campion
grief divorce
There's got to be grief. Victoria Principal
grief bereavement gone
I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days. Victoria Hanley
grief cures
Work will cure your grief. Serve others. Gordon B. Hinckley
grief fishing worry
Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. Gladys Taber
grief thinking kind
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief. Gerry Adams
grief joy ancestry
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. Herman Melville
grief joy suffering
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
grief men hands
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself. Jean Genet