Grief Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Weakness

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• Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Fire, Doe, Different

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• I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Politics, Whining, Nancy

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• Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Kids, Opportunity

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• We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

  Swami Paramananda

  Hatred, Enemy, Balance

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• We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss them. They are still with us in their absence.

  Gerald Brenan

  Missing, Absence, Ends

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• There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

  Henry Flagler

  Disappointment, Suffering, Obtaining

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• When our spirit tells us it is time to weep, we should weep. It is part of the ritual, if you will, of putting sadness in perspective and gaining control of the situation. . . . Grief has a purpose. Grieving does not mean you are weak It is the first step toward regaining balance and strength. Grieving is part of the tempering process.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Sadness, Mean, Grieving

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• To grieve at any loss, be it of friend or property, weakens mind and body. It is no help to the friend grieved for. It is rather an injury; for our sad thought must reach the person, even if passed to another condition of existence, and it is a source of pain to that person.

  Prentice Mulford

  Pain, Loss, Grieving

  Prentice Mulford (2015). “The Prentice Mulford Premium Collection: “New Thought” Studies, Novels & Memoirs: Thoughts Are Things, The God In You, Your Forces and How to Use Them, Life By Land and Sea, Swamp Angel and more (Wisdom & Empowerment Series)”, p.223, e-artnow

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• Oh how the passions, insolent and strong, Bear our weak minds their rapid course along; Make us the madness of their will obey; Then die and leave us to our griefs as prey!

  George Crabbe

  Strong, Passion, Mind

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.8

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• Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

  Horace

  Joy, Morrow, Fortune

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

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• One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

  Francois Rabelais

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

  Petrarch

  Sorrow, Incredibles, Slave

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• I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.

  Zhuangzi

  Death, Air, Law

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• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Our World, Skills

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• Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Men, Sorrow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4053, Delphi Classics

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• Gently - so have good men taught -
  Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
  Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
  Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
  Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Journey, Men

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Despair, Misery, Kind

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• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Order, Essence, Despair

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

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• Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Hate, Eye

  Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop (1998). “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: And Other Writings”, p.103, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Grief best is pleased with grief's society.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.704, Oxford University Press

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• Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

  Richard Bach

  Flying, Sorrow

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• There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.

  Marcel Proust

  Dust, Leaving, Sorrow

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.2508, Jester House Publishing

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• When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

  Mark Twain

  Loss, Years, House

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