Grief Quotes
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For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round.
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Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.
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Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
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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.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
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I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine -I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine;Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine !. . .Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain,And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again!
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(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
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If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.
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Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
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I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
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The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.
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Grief is a process, not a state.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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And let these tears, distilling from mine eyes,Be proof of my grief and innocency.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
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But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
