Quotes about grief
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 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
grief absence form
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief
grief parent trying
She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief. Alice Sebold
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 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."