Quotes about grief
grief heart forget
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. J. R. R. Tolkien
grief fate humanity
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty. Immanuel Kant
grief sadness joy
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. Inga Muscio
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.
grief long sorrow
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
grief loss ideas
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking. James Patterson
grief frustration feelings
If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. James Nachtwey
grief grieving use
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. Emile M. Cioran
grief passion heart
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love. Ellen Glasgow
grief failing endeavor
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
grief heart moon
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
grief reality murder-victims
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends. Eric Schlosser
grief spirit hunger
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance Epictetus
grief men animal
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
grief
There is no grief like heartbreak. Emily Giffin
grief world way
It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.
grief feet joy
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all! Emily Dickinson
grief eye grieving
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
grief mortals pity
And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness. William Winter
grief kind villain
I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. Holly Black
grief destiny events
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. Herodotus
grief heart passing-away
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away. Henry Ward Beecher
grief joy immortality
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
grief loss unfinished-business
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. Henry Cloud
grief character men
Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God,--as his God, so he. Johann Kaspar Lavater
grief character joy
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
grief joy greater
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
grief heart complaining
The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
grief conquer resolute
He who is resolute conquers grief.
grief ignorant might
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Khalil Gibran