Quotes about grief
grief blunt edges
Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. Stephen King
grief sadness loss
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. Stefan Kanfer
grief poetry addresses
Only poetry can address grief. Starhawk
grief joy veils
All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. Sophie Swetchine
grief sorrow ifs
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
grief humility pride
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
grief winter youth
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
grief self resignation
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
grief knowledge men
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent. Soren Kierkegaard
grief mean thinking
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It’s not like it’s in me and I’m going to deal with it. It’s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door. Stephen Colbert
grief support world
If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault. Thomas Pynchon
grief self envy
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. Thomas Hobbes
grief angel men
What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven. Thomas Goodwin
grief loss way
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. William Wycherley
grief school home
We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. William Shatner
grief men hair
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger. William McFee
grief heart home
I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation. William McKinley
grief house muse
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. Sappho
grief sorrow would-be
There is no such thing as was—only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. William Faulkner
grief men causes
...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.
grief men joy
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. Robert E. Lee
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 grieving funeral
When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself Thomas S. Monson
grief sunny-weather sorrow
Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!
grief men anxiety
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being. Robert Anton Wilson
grief wine liberty
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. Richard Lovelace
grief writing thinking
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true. Richard Flanagan
grief comfort depth
Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief. Tullian Tchividjian
grief grieving language
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. Sarah Dessen
grief grieving sorrow
Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.