Grief Quotes
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She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
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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.
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Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed.
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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.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
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Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
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On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.
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Grief is a nation of everyone, a country without borders. I roam the avenues of it out of habit.
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This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.
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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.
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For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
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Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
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Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.
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For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly-hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
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The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
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None can cure their harms by wailing them.
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We wore that grief like one wears one's underclothes. An invisible skin, unseen to prying eyes, but knitted to us all the same. We wore it every day.
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I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
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Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.
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I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
