Grief Quotes - Page 21

• Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

  Alison Bechdel

  Absence, Form, Including

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

  Lydia Millet

  Suffering, Sorrow, Beloved

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.127, Soft Skull Press

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• All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Suffering, Sorrow, Doe

  Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006). “Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse”

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• To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.

  James Alexander Thom

  People, Mexican, Political

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• Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

  Andrew Solomon

  People, Suffering, Sorrow

  Andrew Solomon (2013). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.701, Simon and Schuster

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• Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Circles, Long

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “Works: Edited with an Introduction”

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• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Moon, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Suffering, Sorrow, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

  Steve Almond

  Rage, Form, Cloaks

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books

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• Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

  Rosanne Cash

  Loss, Suffering, Sorrow

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• Every love story is a potential grief story.

  Julian Barnes

  Stories, Levels Of Life, Love Story

  “Levels of Life by Julian Barnes - review” by Blake Morrison, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Suffering, Sorrow, Dying

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• All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it; but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.

  Robert Orben

  Mean, Years, Two

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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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• No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Office, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.120

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• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Heart, Kissing

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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• Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sleep, Over You, Suffering

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition”, p.289, North Point Press

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• I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Hurt, Suffering, Sorrow

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Suffering, Disease, Causes

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• There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Suffering, Sorrow, Seems

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.

  Amy Bloom

  Lying, Writing, Mean

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Tears, Arrivals

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• The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Death, Loving You, Funeral

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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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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