Quotes about grief
grief mines
Was ever grief like mine? George Herbert
grief physicians lawyer
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
grief compassion mind
A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion. Jean de la Bruyere
grief joy soul
Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them. Joseph Joubert
grief sea islands
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost. Kristin Hannah
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?
grief patterns firsts
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
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 banking pestilence
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. H. L. Mencken
grief writing joy
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words. Grant Morrison
grief house folly
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
grief emotional events
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. Jennifer Armintrout
grief stage stages-of-grief
There are many stages of grief. Jennifer Aniston
grief woe complaining
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain. Giacomo Casanova
grief difficult feels
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. Hugh Leonard
grief ambition hands
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. Horace Greeley
grief son blood
And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body! Homer
grief fate men
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.
grief long joy
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
grief blessing two
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
grief involved share whether
I am with the American people. I share their pain. I share their grief, whether he was involved or not.
grief long relief
Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. Hugo Grotius
grief people shining
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere. Honore de Balzac
grief heart giving
Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.
grief heart men
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned. J. R. R. Tolkien
grief long people
At last, Lady Evenstar, fairest in this world, and most beloved, my world is fading. Lo! we have gathered, and we have spent, and now the time of payment draws near." 'Arwen knew well what he intended, and long had foreseen it; nonetheless she was overborne by her grief. "Would you then, lord, before your time leave your people that live by your word?" she said.
grief fate loss
And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.