Quotes about grief
grief anchors bereavement
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. Sarah Dessen
grief heart blow
The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves? Sara Teasdale
grief dark tears
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
grief land swim
I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land. Samuel Rutherford
grief bereavement
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Samuel Johnson
grief exercise useless
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
grief heart fate
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
grief silence world
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. Sarah Orne Jewett
grief joy overcoming
Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief. Vittorio Alfieri
grief secret calamity
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. Voltaire
grief men ideas
What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
grief stronger world
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. William Ralph Inge
grief dark night
There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. William C. Bryant
grief joy pleasure
Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. Wilhelm von Humboldt
grief sadness wind
Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.
grief joy sorrow
Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. Walter Scott
grief writing stories
But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed. Winifred Holtby
grief empires watches
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. Winston Churchill
grief sadness sentimentality
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs
grief joy cabins
The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin. Yuri Gagarin
grief sadness taste
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. William Hazlitt
grief littles bears
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
grief world doe
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. Wendell Berry
grief taxes forethought
Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.
grief believe forever
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
grief blessing men
Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
grief worry grace
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
grief light silence
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. Samuel Daniel
grief florida needs
Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole. Wanda Sykes
grief sunshine tunnels
(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life. Julian Barnes
grief heart sleep
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place. Ramana Maharshi
grief rain men
Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain. Ralph Waldo Emerson
grief evil torment
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.