Quotes about grief
grief heart drunk
Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief. Dorothy Allison
grief light world
But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead. Donna Tartt
grief intimate objects
...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
grief loss wish
I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. Donald Hall
grief loss house
Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
grief support joy
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs. Clark Moustakas
grief true-joy profound
True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same. Clive Barker
grief sadness thinking
Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be. Douglas Coupland
grief loss years
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years. Dan Chaon
grief alcohol reactions
Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. David Cook
grief mourning
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed. Confucius
grief fall fighting
There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race, gender, and so forth - until you eliminate "withdrawal" and "attack" and replace them with "acceptance" and "help." Once you do that and not just talk about it, these other issues will fall into place quickly. They will not fall into place at all unless it is done this way. Dallas Willard
grief too-much asks
Death is too much to ask of the living. Dodie Smith
grief funeral silence
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. Anna Quindlen
grief mind sap
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. Alfred Lord Tennyson
grief childhood remember
Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief? Amity Gaige
grief people missionary
It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else. Andy Stanley
grief dark thinking
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.' Andre Dubus
grief sadness thinking
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. Ann Richards
grief believe book
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself. Ann Patchett
grief talking being-real
I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about Alton Brown
grief grieving process
Grief is a process, not a state. Anne Grant
grief journey confusion
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
grief tragedy doe
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. Anne Carson
grief exhausting
Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. Anita Shreve
grief might way
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
grief lasts fulfilled
I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts. Angelina Jolie
grief knives kind
It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change. Anne Tyler
grief mean eye
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes. Anne Rice
grief politics whining
I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies. Andrew Sullivan
grief people suffering
Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. Andrew Solomon
grief mourning stakes
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own. Anthony Kennedy
grief sea design
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure Alison Bechdel