Grief Quotes - Page 13

• No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

  Antonio Porchia

  Losing A Loved One, Men, Grieving

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Profound, Mourning, Human Experience

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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• Success doesn't change you... It reveals you

  Johnny Depp

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• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

  Robert Fulghum

  Hope, Laughter, Believe

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.8, Ivy Books

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• The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Courage, Pain

  "6.o Congreso Internacional de Medicina Fisica: 2-6 julio 1974" by Instituto Nacional de Previsión, (p. 424), 1974.

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• The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity

  David Abram

  Dark, Science, Love Is

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• 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.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Opportunity, Yesterday, Shadow

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• Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Real, Tragedy, Fleeting

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• Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Mars, Done

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.153, Barbour Publishing

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• The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has cometo live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoidingyou, but who is still one of the family. Our anger is a rage that Westerners cannot understand. Our sadness can make the stonesweep. And the way we love is no exception

  Susan Abulhawa

  Love, Sadness, Loss

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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!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hope, Waste, Poet

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• What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Suffering, Sorrow

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• For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

  Isaac Watts

  Sea, Weeping

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• Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

  Julian Barnes

  Mean, Names, One Day

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• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

  George Eliot

  Pain, Baptism, Suffering

  "Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.

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• God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Sick, Suffering, Dying

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• It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.

  Colleen Hoover

  Pain, Two, People

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• Against the sustained tick of a watch, fiction takes the measure of a life, a season, a look exchanged, the turning point, desire as brief as a dream, the grief and terror that after childhood we cease to express.

  Mavis Gallant

  Dream, Childhood, Desire

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• Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

  Julian Barnes

  Patterns, Firsts, Belief

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

  Julian Barnes

  Fall, Writing, Mind

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

  Neil Abramson

  Real, Thinking, Light

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• There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Pain, Feelings, Wish

  “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

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• Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

  Plutarch

  Pain, Medical, Treatment

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• Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.

  George W. Bush

  Forgiveness, Remembrance, Hatred

  Remarks at the National Day of Prayer & Remembrance Service, delivered 14 September 2001, Episcopal National Cathedral

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