Grief Quotes - Page 27

• After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.

  Gladys Taber

  Fishing, Worry, Anxiety

  "The book of Stillmeadow".

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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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• 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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• While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Love Is

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.38, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Joy, Pleasure, Deprivation

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• Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.

  Mary Renault

  Horse, Fall, Giving

  Mary Renault (2015). “The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.174, Hachette UK

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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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• It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Missionary

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• I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Bible, Christian, Song

  "The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge".

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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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• 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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• When you pray to God resignedly, as though patiently accepting the punishment of grief at the death of a loved one, and you say: "Thy will be done O Lord. The Lord giveth, and he taketh away", you have not yet known the God of love, for God giveth only. God never takes that which has not been given. What God gives to you you regive to Him for His regiving.
  You rejoice when God gives birth to life, yet you deeply grieve when you give rebirth to new life - for that is what death is.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Grieving, Punishment

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Book, Soul, Darkness

  Isaac Mayer Wise (1876). “The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures”

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

  Billy Graham

  Darkness, Thankfulness, Sunlight

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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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• Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

  Petrarch

  Argument

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• In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Tears, Age, Youth

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