Quotes about grief
grief fate destiny
Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people. Pythagoras
grief eye two
There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
grief wind weather
He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds. Julian Barnes
grief evil torment
What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived Ralph Waldo Emerson
grief taught shallow
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
grief thinking media
The general assumption, which I think is a valid one, is that a lot of the major media were on their heels a little bit and prone to share the grief of the nation and to give Bush all the support it could. Seymour Hersh
grief dirty book
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. V. S. Naipaul
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 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 men joy
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief Marcus Aurelius
grief causes opinion
Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.
grief heart hands
Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it. Thomas a Kempis
grief men
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
grief heart textbooks
I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will. Taya Kyle
grief writing mobility
I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved. Tara Brach
grief fall people
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins. Robert A. Heinlein
grief thinking addiction
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. Richie Sambora
grief heart grieving
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.] Tacitus