Grief Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.

  Aeschylus

  Memories, Heart, Sleep

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• There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Suffering, Sorrow

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• One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

  Sophocles

  Adversity, Trouble, Glad

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• All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

  Thomas Campion

  Pride, Play, Joy

  Thomas Campion (1909). “The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion”

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• A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.

  Robert E. Lee

  Men, Joy, May

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• Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.

  David Richo

  Letting Go, Mean, Past

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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• It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

  Richard Sibbes

  Running, Roots, Sorrow

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.51, Titus Books

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• I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

  Robert Goolrick

  Sad, Pain, Loss

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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• I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about

  Alton Brown

  Talking, Fake, Being Real

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• Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

  Peter Pouncey

  Self, Kind, Let Me

  Peter Pouncey (2010). “Rules For Old Men Waiting”, p.20, Random House

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• They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Cancer, Life Is, Incredibles

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• Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

  Peter Orner

  Pain, Real, Character

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• Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Memories, Children, Thinking

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• Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Letting Go, Echoes, Color

  "Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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• Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.

  Leif Enger

  Mother, Thinking, Rivers

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.54, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Night, Blue, Blood

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.78, Macmillan

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• Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

  Rosamunde Pilcher

  Funny Things, Rest Of Your Life, Walks

  Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “September”, p.98, Macmillan

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• When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Children, Fundamentals, Patterns

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2003). “Trick of the Eye”, Miramax Books

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• You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Morning, Forever, Doe

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.348, 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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• See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.

  Matthew Henry

  Christian, Lying, Heart

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• It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.

  Cameron Dokey

  Two, Different Experiences, People

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Belle: A Retelling of "Beauty and the Beast"”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• ...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

  Donna Tartt

  Intimate, Objects

  Donna Tartt (1993). “The Secret History: A Novel”, Ballantine Books

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• I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

  Anne Enright

  Sex, Feelings, Confusing

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House

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