Quotes about grief
grief believe track
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief. Barbara Kingsolver
grief writing character
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
grief moving dark
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
grief past thinking
You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
grief mean thoughtful
The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way. Barbara Park
grief sorrow cry
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. Charles Bukowski
grief facts feels
I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub
grief winter night
The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it. Rob Sheffield
grief people choices
I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices. Atom Egoyan
grief men enemy
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. Ben Jonson
grief burden
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. Elizabeth Edwards
grief healing fixing
I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?
grief expecting least-expecting
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. Dominic Cooper
grief hands ice
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath. David Nicholls
grief looks actors
If you go to YouTube and look up 'grief' you can find them and it's just an unbelievable tool for an actor to be able to access, without being unethical. It's like accessing the deepest, most painful parts of a person. Aaron Eckhart
grief love poetry zombies
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
grief heart past
Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.
grief heart passing-away
Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.' Adelaide Anne Procter
grief capacity results
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- Abraham Verghese
grief love-you language
The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore. Ann Hood
grief plot smooth
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
grief laughing making-love
Time passes and I am still not through it. Grief isn't something you get over. You live with it. You go on on with it lodged in you. Sometimes I feel like I have swallowed a pile of stones. Grief makes me heavy. It makes me slow. Even on days when I laugh a lot, or dance, or finish a project, or meet a deadline, or celebrate, or make love, it is there. Lodged deep inside of me.
grief six-months rooms
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. Ann Brashares
grief writing want
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. Andrea Gibson
grief fate men
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. Homer
grief heart sleep
Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last. Alfred Lord Tennyson
grief forgiving found
Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
grief fighting destiny
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit? Aberjhani
grief loss errors
Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through A. R. Ammons
grief land giving
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land. A. E. Housman
grief heart dust
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust. Adrienne Rich
grief themselves
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
grief forever going-away
Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. Jandy Nelson