Quotes about grief
grief heart flesh
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. Geoffrey Chaucer
grief reflection blood
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
grief grateful eye
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you
grief feels
No one feels another’s grief... Franz Schubert
grief joy understanding
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
grief joy world
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.
grief soul sorrow
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. George Herbert
grief losing-a-loved-one cry
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
grief humor angel
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love. George W. Bush
grief mind strongest
...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. George R. R. Martin
grief tears guilt
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
grief struggle fall
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. George Eliot
grief sadness mean
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room. Fernando Pessoa
grief young cures
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young. Euripides
grief past love-is
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
grief loss land
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
grief yield
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. Francis Bacon
grief fall air
Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's not the problem When I'm falling I'm in peace It's only when I hit the ground It causes all the grief Florence Welch
grief recovery self
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. Henri Frederic Amiel
grief ears mourn
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn. Helen Keller
grief losing-a-loved-one loss
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
grief new-beginnings each-day
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief.
grief love-is effort
Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.
grief hath shadows substance twenty
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows William Shakespeare
grief master
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
grief heart inward
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. Jane Porter
grief wine sleep
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
grief yesterday tragedy
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
grief sound ordinary
Don't make it sound like that. Like some ordinary sort of grief. It's not like that. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Over. This is a fresh wound every day. Cassandra Clare
grief sadness grieving
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it. Fred Rogers
grief victory aging
Grief is the price of victory. Frank Herbert
grief sea purpose
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
grief snow may
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.