Grief Quotes

• 20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Joy

• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• And let these tears, distilling from mine eyes,Be proof of my grief and innocency.

  

  Christopher Marlowe
  • Eyes
  • Tears
  • Grief

• I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Drink
  • Sadness
  • Misery

• Yes mam. I'm sorry you've had such troubles. Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don’t need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Death
  • House

• Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • She
  • Death

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I cannot grieve at death. It seems to me the greatest boon the Almighty has granted us. Consequently I cannot appreciated the grief of those who mourn the loss of loved ones, particularly if they go early from this hell of misery to which we have been doomed.

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Death
  • Grief

• 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.

  

  Jon Hamm
  • Lost
  • Mom
  • Football

• Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Family
  • Food
  • Die

• There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Grief
  • Miracle
  • Ruins

• Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

  

  James Buchan
  • Long
  • Money
  • Universe

• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Love
  • Death
  • Spiritual

• I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • She
  • Remember

• ...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Life
  • Grief

• Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

  

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Nature
  • Grief

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Disease

• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  

  Christopher Morley
  • Mind
  • Pain
  • Beauty

• Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father
  • Poor
  • Glad

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