Grief Quotes - Page 23

• You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Fall, Grieving, People

  Rana Dasgupta (2011). “Solo”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And grief is there sure enough, just about all the way through. From the time I was a girl I have never been far from it. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

  Wendell Berry

  Girl, Dark, Love Is

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• Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Pain, Real, Passion

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.50

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• Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

  Martin Luther

  Children, Believe, Fire

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• Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Punishment, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.94, Shambhala Publications

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• Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

  Ben Okri

  Miracle, Suffering, Trying

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• This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

  Julian Barnes

  Mean, Alive, May

  Julian Barnes (2013). “Levels of Life”, p.102, Random House

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• There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

  Horace

  Disease, Accents

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• When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

  Maxim Gorky

  Events, Welcome, Life Is

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• Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

  Alison Bechdel

  Sea, Design, Daedalus

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Revenge, Selfish, Distance

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

  Quentin Bryce

  Loyalty, Hurt, Honesty

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fear, Born

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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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• 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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• In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.

  David Richo

  Grieving, Land, Feelings

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Islamic, Two, Want

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• The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

  Herodotus

  Destiny, Events, Hateful

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• Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

  Hafez

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

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