Quotes about grief
grief mean wife
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best Benjamin Franklin
grief sadness grieving
I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them. Arthur Golden
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.
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 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 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 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 fall night
Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. Denise Levertov
grief people upset
This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing. Deb Caletti
grief heart cutting
Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint. Dennis Lehane
grief said
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
grief grieving tragedy
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. Elizabeth McCracken
grief men air
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach Elizabeth Barrett Browning
grief hopeless hopelessness
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
grief heaven sorrow
Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven.
grief persevere important-hamlet
To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief. William Shakespeare
grief world woe
Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?
grief past late
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
grief sorrow care
Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business, Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care Take hold on me; for my particular grief Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.