Grief Quotes - Page 24

• Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Hope, Children, Believe

  "Parenting for Everyone". Book by Simon Soloveychik, 1989.

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• Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.

  Peter Høeg

  Spiritual Love

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• We shake with joy, we shake with grief.
  What a time they have, these two
  housed as they are in the same body.

  Mary Oliver

  Two, Joy, Body

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!

  Octavius Winslow

  Sweet, Forever, Cups

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• When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Immature, Causes, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.

  Warsan Shire

  Mother, Love Is, Men

  Warsan Shire, “The House”

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• If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Transactions, Universal, Conditions

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.41, Penguin

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• All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

  Anne Lamott

  Pain, Home, Years

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• We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

  Mary Astell

  Pain, May, Sin

  John Norris, Mary Astell (1695). “Letters Concerning the Love of God”, p.90

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• We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.

  Deena Metzger

  Eye, Agony, Yellow

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• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.

  Jane Porter

  Art, Color, Imagination

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Cancer, Suffering

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

  Og Mandino

  Ignorance, Lynching, Self

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.2, Bantam

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Character

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• A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Political, Wish

  "The Prince".

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• We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Thinking, Yield

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• If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

  Clifford Odets

  Sad, Suicide, Sleep

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Thinking, Years

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• It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Struggle, Rocks, Pushing Through

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• The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

  Katherine Catmull

  Flames, Sea, Knives

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• Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,
  To make my end too sudden.

  William Shakespeare

  Fairness, Ends, Fairs

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1855). “The complete works of William Shakespeare: comprising his plays and poems with Dr. Johnson's preface, a glossary, an account of each play, and a memoir of the author”, p.371

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• Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

  Ron Fournier

  Anger, Acceptance, Confusion

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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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• 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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