Grief Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Joy, Greater

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• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Air, Midnight

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Mind, Sap, Rings

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Ring Out , Wild Bells”

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• To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Joy, Boon

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• Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

  Horace

  Funeral, Littles

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mean, Wife, Guests

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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• The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Gallantry

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• Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Yellow, Green, Melancholy

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

  Sergio Aragones

  Sadness, Train Of Thought, Separation

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• There's got to be grief.

  Victoria Principal

  Divorce

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• Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

  Oscar Wilde

  Husband, Women, Hair

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 15 (1891). A similar quotation appears inWilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1 (1895).

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• You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

  Phil McGraw

  Pain, Remembrance, Needs

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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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• What I've done serves mostly to show that nearly all limits are self-imposed, a false construct of the mind. You can take on mind-boggling challenges. It may cause you grief, it may test your relationships and cause you to question your sanity, but you can do it! Yes, a fifty-seven year-old man can run across the United States and break a couple or records in the process. People of any age can accomplish what few others have done; we can endure the trials, overcome the obstacles, put up with the pain to realize our dreams. Why not try?

  Marshall Ulrich

  Running, Dream, Pain

  Marshall Ulrich (2011). “Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Ameri ca”, p.117, Penguin

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• It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Pain, Father

  Ellen G. White “The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

  David Whyte

  Honesty, Loss, Doorways

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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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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• Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about how the inner translates into the outer, the sense that one is expected to perform grief palatably. (If you don’t seem sad, people worry; but if you are grief-stricken, people flinch away from your pain.)

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Pain, Differences, People

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.80, Penguin

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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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• And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.

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• Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Light, Dumb

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.124, A&C Black

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• Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).

  Ann Voskamp

  Light, Work Out, Grace

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• There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Fall, Persons

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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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