Grief Quotes - Page 31

• There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Joy, Defense

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.136, Penguin

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• Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sea, People, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

  Donna Tartt

  Light, World, Wrecks

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• Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?

  Marie Lu

  Laughter, Love You, Eye

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• Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Time, Men, Glasses

  'Atalanta in Calydon' (1865) chorus 'Before the beginning of years' st. 7

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• In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Hands, Order

  Jean Genet, Bernard Frechtman (1994). “Funeral Rites”, p.46, Grove Press

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• There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

  Leon Bloy

  Death, Heart, Grieving

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• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Bereavement, Proportion

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Depression, Panic

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• Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet and what are unsavory…. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us….All these things we endure from the brain when it is not healthy….In these ways I am of the opinion that the brain exercises the greatest power in the man.

  Hippocrates

  Sports, Sweet, Laughter

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• Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

  Veronica Roth

  Play, Tricks, Persons

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• What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heartbreak, Grieving, Wonder

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  Walker Percy

  Heartbreak, Loss, Past

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• In all my wanderings round this world of care,
  In all my griefs-and God has given my share-
  I still had hopes my latest hours to crown,
  Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Hope, Humble, Crowns

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.42

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• What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Fighting, Men

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Knowledge, Men, Becoming

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Girl, Baby, Fear

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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Strong, Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sympathy, Death, Memories

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• Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

  Rita Schiano

  Sympathy, Healing, Losing A Loved One

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• When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into which our grief has given us entrance. And inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy and their understanding.

  Helen Keller

  Family, Sympathy, Condolences

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• To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

  Tryon Edwards

  Sympathy, Grieving, Giving

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.295

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• The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

  Brent Sexton

  Emotion, Sometimes, Roller Coaster

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• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Winter, Apology

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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