Grief Quotes
-
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
-
In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?
-
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
-
Griefs, when divided become less poignant.
-
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
-
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.
-
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
-
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.
-
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
-
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief...
-
Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.
-
To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.
-
The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
-
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
-
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
-
I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.
-
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
-
When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.
-
Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.
-
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
-
Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.
-
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
-
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
-
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.
