Quotes about grief
grief bereavement suffering
All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another. Debbie Ford
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 too-much asks
Death is too much to ask of the living. Dodie Smith
grief water darkness
Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else. David Whyte
grief loss odds
I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds. David Mamet
grief character sometimes
Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief. Clark Gregg
grief community sorrow
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. Cormac McCarthy
grief long poison
She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison. Colum McCann
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 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 nor pot quarrel thirst
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot George Herbert
grief love profound releases
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. Jacqueline Novogratz
grief people degrees
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. Orson Scott Card
grief thinking ungrateful
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?
grief people groups
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
grief loss
Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
grief darkness thankfulness
Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving. Billy Graham
grief grieving great-love
When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.
grief heart sleep
He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe. William Shakespeare
grief heart eye
Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
grief humble sorrow
Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
grief ifs
If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
grief memorable heart
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
grief healing grieving
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. C. S. Lewis
grief long valleys
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
grief grieving sky
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
grief thinking feelings
I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. Carrie Brownstein
grief despair misery
Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
grief owner proud sorrows stoop
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his owner stoop