Quotes about grief
grief shadow substance
Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows. William Shakespeare
grief excess gains
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
grief hands voice
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?
grief men yellow
She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love.
grief want juliet
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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Grief best is pleased with grief's society ...
grief fairness ends
Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.
grief yellow green
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief
grief passion gallantry
The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
grief men giving
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
grief patches
Patch grief with proverbs.
grief men age
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
grief thinking voice
In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer. Alice Walker
grief
Courage can be just as infectious as fear. Alice Miller
grief cold speak
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. Alice Hoffman
grief aristocracy
there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
grief numbness bears
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.
grief air weight
I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.
grief grieving losing-someone
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
grief grieving alone-time
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. Anne Lamott
grief rivers parent
Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
grief feet tears
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
grief numbness next-day
Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.
grief home breathing
But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.
grief insomnia call-me
Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief. Anna Akhmatova
grief
When grief is deepest, words are fewest. Ann Voskamp
grief light work-out
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
grief men justice
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Albert Camus
grief suffering causes
Grief causes suffering and disease. Daniel D. Palmer
grief joy firsts
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. Daniel Defoe
grief scripture cups
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated. Alexander MacLaren
grief dark night
"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."
grief bereavement suffering
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. Debbie Ford