Quotes about grief
grief healing emotion
Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
grief loss want
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
grief feelings grace
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
grief acceptance feelings
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
grief losing-a-loved-one loss
The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
grief heart loss
Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Louise Hay
grief adversity loss
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. Lou Reed
grief tears body
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. Lois Lowry
grief ends knowledge-wisdom
At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope Lloyd Alexander
grief emotional long
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through. Madeleine L'Engle
grief feet water
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
grief luxury determined
…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. Lucy Maud Montgomery
grief wife heaven
Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.] Louis XIV
grief giving suffering
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new. Louise Bogan
grief heart cutting
They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings. John Ford
grief boys long-ago
She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief. Lisa Kleypas
grief heart loss
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. Linda Hamilton
grief sacrifice reality
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests. Leo Tolstoy
grief joy soul
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.
grief love-you grieving
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
grief ocean weight
What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean. John Banville
grief heart sleep
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell
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