Quotes about grief
grief grieving one-day
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it. Arthur Golden
grief heart giving
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief. Anton Chekhov
grief character giving
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.
grief air breathing
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. Aunjanue Ellis
grief night law
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. Arundhati Roy
grief devastated
Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.
grief men
Time takes away the grief of men. Desiderius Erasmus
grief sadness sorrow
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. William Shakespeare
grief grieving hours
Grief makes one hour ten.
grief heart sadness
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
grief grieving clouds
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?
grief color sorrow
He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did. Diane Setterfield
grief doe
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? Alexandre Dumas
grief world able
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
grief grieving littles
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving. Alexandra Fuller
grief emotion sometimes
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. Brent Sexton
grief self tree
Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room. Jane Hirshfield
grief joy poetry
Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.
grief believe years
I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years. Jane Goodall
grief men blow
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.] Juvenal
grief wind soul
I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead. Charles Spurgeon
grief loss everything-happens-for-a-reason
Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. Dean Koontz
grief sorrow might
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.
grief sadness love-is
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it. Daniel Handler
grief weakness ends
Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love. Elizabeth I
grief math two
That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world. Ben Sherwood
grief belief unhappiness
Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
grief men lord
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten. Brandon Sanderson
grief temperature doe
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. Anthony Rapp
grief sadness thinking
In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.
grief looks sound
Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same. Ben Marcus
grief bigs dose
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
grief miracle suffering
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes. Ben Okri