Quotes about grief
grief believe bereavement
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. Judith McNaught
grief joy skins
Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words. Kate Grenville
grief years three
Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am. Karen Kingsbury
grief may violence
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy Joseph Conrad
grief poet loved-ones
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? Kate Morton
grief precise
Ah, grief makes us precise! Leonard Cohen
grief anxiety suffering
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
grief abba
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. Lasse Hallstrom
grief weapons doe
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly. Lois McMaster Bujold
grief hands long
...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end. Lyndon B. Johnson
grief flower yellow
My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone! Lord Byron
grief and-love apparel
Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
grief
That Woman is in love with her own grief. Gabrielle Zevin
grief strange paradox
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. Joy Page
grief tunnels light
I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time. Joyce Brothers
grief widows drs
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled. Josh Billings
grief funeral earth
Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is. Joyce Cary
grief suffering sorrow
There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Oscar Wilde
grief accepting inefficiency
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. Greg Bear
grief felt assured
Griefs assured are felt before they come. John Dryden
grief past grieving
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
grief events welcome
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event... Maxim Gorky
grief light hypocrisy
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us. Max Beerbohm
grief forever bereavement
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it. Joyce Carol Oates
grief believe rose
I don't want to. Believe me. But I can't help it. Rose said in time, I'll learn the control to keep his feelings out, but I can't do it now. And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place. What happened between him and Rose . . . it tears him apart. Richelle Mead
grief usual last-sacrifice
So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.
grief book sleep
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.
grief tears example
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Rebecca West
grief cutting grace
There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.
grief joy feelings
Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss. Umberto Eco
grief speak wells
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
grief resolve
My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence Rick Riordan
grief tears flow
Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. Ovid