Quotes about grief
grief tears ready
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief Publilius Syrus
grief past hands
We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. Kristin Armstrong
grief purpose lessons
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief. Oprah Winfrey
grief silence silent
In all the silent manliness of grief. Oliver Goldsmith
grief agony mind
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.
grief flames hands
We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed. Margaret Atwood
grief doe human-nature
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. Marcus Tullius Cicero
grief knows can-do
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
grief hair sorrow
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]
grief doe
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]
grief
No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.
grief tears olives
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
grief sorrow opinion
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
grief loss years
When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss. Mark Twain
grief sadness men
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases.
grief years rangers
I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life Paul Gascoigne
grief heart selfishness
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
grief scary scary-things
Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down. Lea Michele
grief chance cry
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. Lauren Oliver
grief past roles
it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
grief facts things-change
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--
grief buried sinking
Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
grief disbelief loses
He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
grief way
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. Patti Davis
grief blessing house
And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind. Oscar Wilde
grief sadness
No one is exempt from grief. Gregory Maguire
grief evil beast
Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards. J. K. Rowling
grief men tiny
Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.
grief loss self
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy. Kelsey Grammer
grief mean alive
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist. Julian Barnes
grief levels-of-life stories
Every love story is a potential grief story.
grief fall writing
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
grief mean names
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?