Grief Quotes
-
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough?
-
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.
-
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
-
Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.
-
There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
-
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
-
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.
-
If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
-
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
-
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.
-
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
-
Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
-
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,Did all within this circle move!
-
I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.
-
I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.
-
Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.
-
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
-
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.
-
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
-
If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.
-
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
-
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
-
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
-
Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.
