Quotes about grief
grief book dust
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead. Jean Genet
grief choices matter
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. Jeffrey Eugenides
grief night blue
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.
grief joy unexpected
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Jim Bishop
grief punishment keys
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief. James A. Baldwin
grief soul tears
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. Jacqueline Carey
grief golf wind
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. Jackie Gleason
grief loss men
You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you. Gary Zukav
grief hole-in-my-heart over-it
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. Jeanette Winterson
grief past greater
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
grief years stones
I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. Jennifer Weiner
grief law mind
The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. Jennifer James
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 giving feelings
Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another. Esther Hicks
grief flower writing
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Eudora Welty
grief people hopeless
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. Gideon Welles
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. Harriet Martineau
grief years grows
There are griefs which grow with years. Harriet Beecher Stowe
grief heart giving
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. Homer
grief sorrow tears
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. Ignatius of Loyola
grief men limits
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?. Horace
grief joy morrow
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
grief disease accents
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
grief funeral littles
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
grief grieving wish
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
grief firsts emotion
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
grief hopeless darkening
Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten. Frederick William Faber
grief wings heaven
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
grief men soul
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul. Frederick William Robertson
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 silence suffering
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering. George Eliot