Grief Quotes
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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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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
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Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.
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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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Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
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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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I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.
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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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Anger is so much easier than grief.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.
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I think people become environmentalists through experiences of beauty and grief. There was that pond that you visited when you were a child, and there were frogs and turtles. You go back there and it's dead now. The forest you went to, now there are bulldozers, now it's a strip mall. These experiences of beauty followed by grief affect us more than learning that CO2 levels are now 400 parts per million.
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No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
