Quotes about grief
grief himself smiles spends steals
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief William Shakespeare
grief missing desire
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. Judith Butler
grief heard people positive problem
There's the people and friends who want to give you grief about it, but I've heard all positive things, so I have no problem with it. Brandon Phillips
grief people giving
When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation. Giles Andreae
grief hath shadows substance twenty
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
grief master
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
grief cures
Work will cure your grief. Serve others. Gordon B. Hinckley
grief fishing worry
Catching something is merely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. Gladys Taber
grief thinking kind
I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief. Gerry Adams
grief joy ancestry
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. Herman Melville
grief joy suffering
Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.
grief men hands
In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself. Jean Genet
grief book dust
They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.
grief choices matter
Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. Jeffrey Eugenides
grief night blue
She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.
grief joy unexpected
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. Jim Bishop
grief punishment keys
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief. James A. Baldwin
grief soul tears
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. Jacqueline Carey
grief golf wind
Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse. Jackie Gleason
grief loss men
You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in the intimacy of your own experience for exactly what it is, and then it comes. In other words, by experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you. Gary Zukav
grief hole-in-my-heart over-it
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. Jeanette Winterson
grief past greater
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
grief years stones
I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. Jennifer Weiner
grief law mind
The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too. Jennifer James
grief eye would-be
To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them. Emma Bull
grief steps seems
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. F. Scott Fitzgerald
grief college men
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
grief giving feelings
Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another. Esther Hicks
grief flower writing
Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Eudora Welty
grief people hopeless
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. Gideon Welles
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. Harriet Martineau
grief years grows
There are griefs which grow with years. Harriet Beecher Stowe
grief heart giving
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. Homer