Quotes about grief
grief flight draught
Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. Ovid
grief grieving rage
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
grief loss long
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed. Pericles
grief echoes mountain
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
grief winter years
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.
grief light darkness
It is in the darkness that one finds the light.
grief two joy
We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body. Mary Oliver
grief love-is pay
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. Mary Doria Russell
grief progress hard
It's hard to make progress with grief. Martin Amis
grief men envy
If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity? Pietro Metastasio
grief would-be inward
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].
grief grieving bereavement
One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille
grief reality tragedy
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy. Rachel Caine
grief past natural-talent
Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread. Paulo Coelho
grief essence guilt
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated. Quentin Crisp
grief doors land
We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century. Primo Levi
grief evil feelings
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. Plutarch
grief our-love want
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. Phillips Brooks
grief ease
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief. Nathaniel Hawthorne
grief people want
She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
grief plunge cosette
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. Victor Hugo
grief sorrow radiance
Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
grief order essence
Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.
grief men sides
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.
grief self confusion
Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. Vernon Howard
grief perfect guilt
It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt. Veronica Roth
grief movement helping
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
grief flying sorrow
Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. Richard Bach
grief grieving trying
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief. Robert Frost
grief political poetry
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
grief flower eden
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
grief men feelings
Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings. Robert Bly
grief sorrow speak
Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. Thomas Otway