C. S. Lewis Quotes
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Explore
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
Pam Ferris -
When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
Irvin Mayfield -
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 -
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon -
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.
Malcolm Turnbull -
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
Inga Muscio -
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
Laura Dern -
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 -
Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers -
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
Barbara Sher -
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
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When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.
Rachel Bloom -
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
Fran Drescher -
Grief causes suffering and disease.
Daniel D. Palmer -
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
V. S. Naipaul -
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson -
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
Ian Mckellen -
He is a portion of the loveliness Which once he made more lovely.
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
Jon Meacham -
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
C. S. Lewis