Grief Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Strange, Choke

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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• I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Giving Up, Pain, Pride

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• be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

  Jodi Picoult

  Judging, Boundaries, Good Listener

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

  J. K. Rowling

  Evil, Beast, Bigs

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Detours, Sides, Sometimes

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2014). “Oleander Girl: A Novel”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

  Nicholson Baker

  Life, Believe, Feelings

  Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.11, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Loss, People

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.60, Bantam

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• Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

  Alison Bechdel

  Absence, Form, Including

  Alison Bechdel (2007). “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.

  Rick Yancey

  Hate, Self, Guilt

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.128, Penguin

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• Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

  Jim Bishop

  Joy, Unexpected, Birth

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• Every love story is a potential grief story.

  Julian Barnes

  Stories, Levels Of Life, Love Story

  “Levels of Life by Julian Barnes - review” by Blake Morrison, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love.

  Peter Deunov

  Pain, Men, Suffering

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• According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

  Meher Baba

  Pain, Real, Self

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• The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

  Rumi

  Pain, Journey, Suffering

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• The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

  Wendell Berry

  Doe, World, Mercy

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• The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Long, Soul, Depth

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• Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Soul, Tears, Heal

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• I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better

  Andrea Gibson

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

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• it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ocean, Ashes, Gone

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “What Matters Most is How Well You”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Memories, Vocabulary

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi”, Signet

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• After all the dangerous adventures I'd had, I couldn't die like this. Sadie would be devastated. Then, once she got over her grief, she'd track down my soul in the Egyptian afterlife and tease me mercilessly for how stupid I'd been.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Adventure, Afterlife

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• There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Numbness, Feelings

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• She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Boys, Long Ago, Voice

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