Grief Quotes - Page 31

• It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Sides

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.366

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• Grief isn't all tears.

  Patti Smith

  Tears

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• Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.

  Sylvia Browne

  Reflection, Past, Gone

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• Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

  Walter Russell

  Selfish, Men, Unreality

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• If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Moon, Offering

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• Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

  Tim Gunn

  Thinking, People, Collaboration

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• Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

  Adyashanti

  Teacher, Hurt, Rip

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• Take one fresh and tender kiss
  Add one stolen night of bliss
  One girl, one boy, some grief,
  some joy Memories are made of this.

  Johnny Cash

  Girl, Memories, Kissing

  Song: Memories Are Made Of This, Album: Unchained, 1996

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• My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

  Isabel Allende

  Struggle, Writing, Moments

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• If there were no Love, there'd be no grief

  Zig Ziglar

  Ifs, No Love

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• In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Silence, Tears, Agonizing

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• Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

  Louise Hay

  Heart, Loss, Grieving

  Louise L. Hay, David Kessler (2014). “You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death”, p.91, Hay House, Inc

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• We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

  Paulo Coelho

  Joy, Given, Our Lives

  Paulo Coelho (2014). “Adultery: A novel”, p.75, Vintage

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Holiday, Sadness

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• It brings me great grief and sadness to hear of the passing of one of the best and most respected trainers of this era, Emanuel Steward. I learned a lot from him during our professional relationship and I will be forever grateful for his help during that time. We were also friends and I know I am going to miss him as so many others will too. He was an important part of our boxing community.

  Oscar De La Hoya

  Grateful, Sadness, Boxing

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• Rainbows introduce us to reflections
  of different beautiful possibilities
  so we never forget that pain and grief
  are not the final options in life.

  Aberjhani

  Beautiful, Pain, Reflection

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

  Patti Davis

  Way

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• I feel no grief for being called something
  which
  I am not;
  in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
  back rub

  Charles Bukowski

  Facts, Feels

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• Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another. You’ve had more than your share of knocks lately, I’ll give you that, but it doesn’t mean you get to quit. No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.

  Julianne MacLean

  Mean, Fighting, Giving

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• I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?

  Carolyn Custis James

  Jesus, Heart, Blessing

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• Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Laughter, Delirium, Shakes

  Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.13, Hawthorne Books

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• If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Drama, Character

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• Listen, I know how old I am and that I'm just a shoulder injury from losing roles like the one in Taken. So I stay with the training, I stay with the work. It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That's effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.

  Liam Neeson

  Jobs, Taken, Thinking

  "Liam Neeson Turns 60!", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

  Klaus Kinski

  Laughter, Joy, Wish

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Country, Believe, Taken

  "Hoffman blasts Bush's war plans". www.theage.com.au. February 06, 2003.

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