Philip James Bailey Quotes

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

Philip James Bailey

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• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Grief

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• Love is the funeral of hearts.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hearts

• People vote with their hearts, not their heads.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Vote
  • Hearts

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief
  • Where
  • Fresh

• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Fear
  • Me
  • Grief

• Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hearts
  • Millions

• During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Grief

• How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, 'If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.'

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Long
  • Grief

• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Fear
  • Hand
  • Powerful

• Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Giving

• I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

  

  Kesha
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• It's really important for us as a band, that when someone is giving us grief on stage, to show our fans how important it is that they stand up for themselves and that they feel confident in themselves.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

  

  Mary Shelley
  • Heart
  • True
  • Happy

• People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • People
  • Future
  • Interesting

• Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Evil
  • Grief

• You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Everyone
  • Conscious
  • Phones

• We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Up

• Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Grief
  • Hearts
  • Heads