Quotes about grief
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 joy feelings
Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss. Umberto Eco
grief speak wells
Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.
grief resolve
My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence Rick Riordan
grief sitting-still space
I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. Veronica Roth
grief guilt
Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
grief play tricks
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
grief heart breathing
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
grief book heart
The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief. Robert Green Ingersoll
grief loss thinking
In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise. Storm Jameson
grief doors separation
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. Stevie Smith
grief heart stupidity
I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me. Sri Aurobindo
grief differences mourning
What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company. Roger Rosenblatt
grief attachment pay
Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments... Thomas Lynch
grief pay want
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
grief passion men
Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something. W. H. Auden
grief grieving medicine
Grief is itself a medicine. William Cowper
grief men people
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century. Vasily Grossman
grief good-day grieving
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone. Ursula K. Le Guin
grief wind soul
My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds. Wilfred Owen
grief passion men
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious. Wassily Kandinsky
grief men joy
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs. William Osler
grief no-love ifs
If there were no Love, there'd be no grief Zig Ziglar