Quotes about grief
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
grief mirrors lost
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. Rumi
grief joy concealed
Joy lives concealed in grief.
grief essence medicine
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.
grief white hot
Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
grief heart self
For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole. Toni Cade Bambara
grief rage cloaks
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. Steve Almond
grief break-through effort
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone. Steven Erikson
grief soul ends
The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
grief heart garden
Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end. Sigrid Undset
grief sadness train-of-thought
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought. Sergio Aragones
grief contagious
Grief is as contagious as a yawn. Sue Grafton
grief illness i-can
grief is an illness I can't recover from.
grief grieving space
Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.
grief sorrow awakening
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. Steven Tyler
grief people guatemala
I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people. Rigoberta Menchu
grief swim neurosis
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. Richard Harris
grief grieving long
In life there is not time to grieve long. T. S. Eliot
grief past reflection
Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone. Sylvia Browne
grief sides bliss
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.
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.
grief way deals
(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to. Laura Branigan
grief struggle thinking
I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have to shatter our complacency and become "active souls,"and be prepared to engage in aware - that personal struggle between our grief and our sorrow. But I don't think we have any choice. Terry Tempest Williams
grief dare
Grief dares us to love once more.
grief thinking people
Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back. Tim Gunn