Quotes about grief
grief meals stores
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] Plautus
grief years tree
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh. Philip Larkin
grief heart age
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Philip James Bailey
grief missionary-zeal age
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. Peter Akinola
grief
Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else. Penelope Lively
grief joy given
We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given. Paulo Coelho
grief anxiety behinds
Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
grief thinking risk
One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe. Meghan O'Rourke
grief over-you would-be
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.
grief men play
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.
grief people different
I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.
grief description describing
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
grief disruption persona
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
grief sadness flu
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.
grief people feelings
But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.
grief believe sadness
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
grief transactions conditions
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
grief pieces demand
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
grief feelings different
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
grief perspective sorrow
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
grief writing thinking
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being. May Sarton
grief like-love fades
Like love, grief fades in and out. Mason Cooley
grief humanity desolation
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.
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 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 emotion spontaneity
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. Morena Baccarin
grief heart ideas
Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart. Marcel Proust
grief suffering doe
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
grief dust leaving
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.