Grief Quotes
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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
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I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!
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There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.
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I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.
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When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.
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Grief is as contagious as a yawn.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.
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Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.
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Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread and began the next one. That was when you made your choice about what you were going to sew next.
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It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.
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I don't recognise any of my emotions any more. There's no such thing as plain joy or grief. It's horror and relief and panic and gratitude all jumbled together.
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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.
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At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
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I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.
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We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" to be moved. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure and her death sparked a fierce reaction, part grief and part anger at her being taken away. It was very fraught.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
