Grief Quotes - Page 17

• Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

  James Clavell

  Strong, Hate, Mean

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.1131, Dell

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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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• 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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• Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Pain, Sadness, Order

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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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• And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

  Oscar Wilde

  Blessing, House, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Self, People

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.194, Profile Books

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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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• (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

  Jean Sasson

  Sadness, Faces, Lifetime

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• My resolve, my anger, even my grief gave me confidence

  Rick Riordan

  Resolve

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Men, Lord, Despite

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.417, Macmillan

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• And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fashion, Heart, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

  Melina Marchetta

  Silence, Majesty, Shame

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• Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

  Dorothy Parker

  Heart, Night, Years

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Country, Growing Up

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2004). “The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.

  David Benatar

  Pain, Disappointment, Children

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.29, Oxford University Press

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• Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

  Bono

  Inspiration, Artist, Thieves

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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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• I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Laughter, Heart

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1284, Bantam

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• At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

  André Aciman

  Loss, Overcoming, Bitter

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.74, Macmillan

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• The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

  Glen Duncan

  Mean, Wrath, Messages

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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