Grief Quotes - Page 15

• Was ever grief like mine?

  George Herbert

  Mines

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.24

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Philosophical

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

  Unknown

  Believe, Reading, Sorrow

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• Stop grieving. Start giving thanks to me. You live to fight on other days.

  Janet Morris

  Commitment, Fighting, Destiny

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.93, Paradise Publishing

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• Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

  Charles Kingsley

  Spring, Kissing, Winter

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Motherhood, Mirth, Fame

  Margaret Widdemer (1917). “Factories, Poems”

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• Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

  Stephen Levine

  Spiritual, Loss, World

  Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

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• The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that "This too shall pass" reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.

  Joey Green

  Life, Pain, Joy

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• First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Football, Grieving

  Tony Dungy (2007). “Quiet Strength: A Memoir”, p.263, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Dad, Missing

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• Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Brother, Despair, Sowing

  "Thousands join pope on Youth Day", www.cnn.com. August 21, 2005.

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• There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Memories, Reading

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• When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.

  Anton Chekhov

  Kindness, Character, Giving

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• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Wine, Sleep, Son

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Stars, Pain

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Lost, Lifts

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Your Grief....”

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• You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Age, Poor

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [275]

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• Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Art, Spring

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 1, l. 3

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• Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?

  William Carlos Williams

  Thinking, Weather, Hell

  William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Fall, Perfect

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.300, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Heart

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• Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Faith, Pain, Loss

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Wind, Roots

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• Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Space, Joy

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• Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Thinking, Buttons

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