Quotes about 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. Marcel Proust
grief useless made
Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief. Laini Taylor
grief money-cant-buy-happiness mess
Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. James Lee Burke
grief joy literature
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. James Russell Lowell
grief sorrow great-idea
Sorrow is the great idealizer.
grief home waiting
She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away. Libba Bray
grief moving like-love
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. Helen Humphreys
grief joy divides
Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs
grief littles poverty
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside. Hedda Hopper
grief fall men
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it? Henry David Thoreau
grief commitment gay
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. Malcolm Turnbull
grief light joy
It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come ... Malcolm X
grief heart reflection
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart John Adams
grief faith-religion abuse
I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!
grief heart mourning
Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. Friedrich Schiller
grief heart caring
And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it. Jojo Moyes
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. Lord Byron
grief grieve living neither nor speak wise words worthy
You grieve for those who are not worthy of grief, and yet speak the words of wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead.
grief adversity trouble
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. Sophocles
grief men suffering
Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
grief grieving mind
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
grief worry causes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
grief sadness sorrow
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
grief sorrow gentle
Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
grief loss rope
Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp. Stephen Levine
grief sadness healing
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
grief heart grieving
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.] Tacitus
grief funny-things rest-of-your-life
Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it. Rosamunde Pilcher
grief looks pace
Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.
grief loss suffering
Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong. Rosanne Cash
grief tragedy unbearable
With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.
grief writing loss
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.
grief anger acceptance
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. Ron Fournier