Quotes about grief
grief men political
A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a Prince who wishes to maintain himself to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case Niccolo Machiavelli
grief loss past
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it. Jodi Picoult
grief thinking ugly
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.
grief judging boundaries
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
grief earth healed
If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
grief two
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.
grief mean joy
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
grief leisure poverty
Small leisure have the poor for grief. John Greenleaf Whittier
grief grieving
Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. John Green
grief tears
Grief isn't all tears. Patti Smith
grief grieving hands
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
grief people giving
Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.
grief sorrow suffering
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering. Patanjali
grief terrible over-it
What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. P. D. James
grief fate play
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met. Mary Renault
grief soup-kitchens cyprus
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. Nicos Anastasiades
grief long different
He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. Nicholas Sparks
grief forever want
Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.
grief way helping
I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.
grief suffering sorrow
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. Oscar Wilde
grief sleep matter
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend? Lucretius
grief dark night
In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires. Louis Kronenberger
grief joy answers
I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I acted.' I want to be able to say: 'I loved and I was mystified. It was a joy sometimes, and I knew grief. And I would like to do it all again.' Liv Ullmann
grief heart feelings
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out. Mehmet Oz
grief soul sorrow
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance. Michel de Montaigne
grief hands wish
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands. Markus Zusak
grief humor fighting
What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth. Mark Twain
grief heart loss
I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. Marianne Williamson
grief thinking age
I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.
grief sadness cells
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us
grief order amusement
And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement. Miguel de Unamuno
grief immature causes
Immature strategy is the cause of grief. Miyamoto Musashi
grief unhappy language
Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language? Publilius Syrus