Grief Quotes - Page 22

• Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Sadness, Wind, Joy

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• Sorrow makes men sincere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Sorrow, Sincere

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “The Life Jesus: The Christ”, p.254

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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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• In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]

  Dani Shapiro

  Country, Lonely, Husband

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• Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

  William Ralph Inge

  Stronger, World, Friend Love

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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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• Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

  Cindy Sheehan

  Mother, Lying, Media

  Cindy Sheehan (2005). “Not One More Mother's Child”, Koa Books Incorporated

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• It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Children, Night, Despair

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Laughter, Eye

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

  Veronica Roth

  Perfect, Guilt, Awful

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• Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

  Billy Graham

  Darkness, Thankfulness, Sunlight

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• In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

  Veronica Roth

  Movement, Helping, Tobias

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• I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Grieving, Years

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• The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?

  Sarada Devi

  Joy, Sorrow, Creation

  Sarada Devi (1963). “At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi”

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• But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

  Donna Tartt

  Light, World, Wrecks

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• Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?

  Marie Lu

  Laughter, Love You, Eye

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• She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

  Homer

  Drinking, Passion, Wine

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• All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Cousin, Children, Sibling

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• Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

  Jean Louis

  Disappointment, Lying, Thinking

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• Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!

  Thomas Parsons

  Sunny Weather, Sorrow, Together

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• Through love the devil becomes an angel.
  Through love stones become soft as butter.
  Through love grief is like delight.
  Through love demons become the servants of God.

  Rumi

  Love, Angel, Servant Of God

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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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• The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Strong, Hate, Mean

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• Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

  Lea Michele

  Scary, Scary Things

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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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