Quotes about grief
grief long asks
Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. Menander
grief healing action
We are turning our grief into winnable actions. Mark Ruffalo
grief transition seems
There is no Death,/What seems so is transition. Marie Corelli
grief eye joy
There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature. Marie Lu
grief commitment gay
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull
grief light joy
It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come ... Malcolm X
grief heart reflection
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart John Adams
grief faith-religion abuse
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!
grief turns knows
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. Joan Didion
grief
Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.
grief interesting sanity
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.
grief sleep over-you
Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches? Rainer Maria Rilke
grief suffering sorrow
Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.
grief love-is remove
Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.
grief struggle rocks
It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.
grief dark night
How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.
grief journey grieving
Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow. John Wayne
grief two evil
It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder. Seth Grahame-Smith
grief trying body
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. Simon Van Booy
grief loss matter
No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive. Michael Sheen
grief naked brides
Good grief, Fury, warn me if you’re going to jump in here naked. (Bride) Sherrilyn Kenyon
grief trying married
When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. Margaret Mead
grief visitors temples
No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors. Margaret Fuller
grief sorrow care
Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain. Michael Drayton
grief moving like-love
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. Helen Humphreys
grief joy divides
Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs
grief littles poverty
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside. Hedda Hopper
grief fall men
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Henry David Thoreau
grief silence tears
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. Mary Todd Lincoln
grief storm seizures
Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm. Patricia Cornwell
grief space suffering
There is no space wider than that of grief ... Pablo Neruda
grief miracle ruins
There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.
grief meals stores
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] Plautus