Grief Quotes - Page 33

• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Character

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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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• There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.

  Elias Canetti

  Atheist, Fate, Would Be

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• His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?

  Aberjhani

  Fighting, Destiny, Justice

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• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  God, Past, Self

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• Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Adversity, Water

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• The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Men, Parent

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• There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.

  Timothy Keller

  Giving, Joy, Circumstances

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• In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Blessing, Temptation

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• It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Heart, Volcanoes

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.577, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.

  Al Capone

  Jobs, Florida, Years

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• Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Good Day, Grieving, Mourning

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• We reflect on what has been lost and comfort those enduring a profound grief. And somehow we know that a brighter morning will come.

  George W. Bush

  Morning, Condolences, Profound

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• For grief is crowned with consolation.

  William Shakespeare

  Sympathy, Condolences, Consolation

  "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Shakespeare, Act I, scene 2, line 173, 1600s.

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• The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Disappointment, Joy

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• I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

  Mark Twain

  Suicide, Heart, Suicidal

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.6914, Delphi Classics

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• We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Issues

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• The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and where Christ's comfort was accepted. The very memory of the sorrow is a gentle benediction that broods ever over the household, like the afterglow of sunset, like the silence that comes after prayer.

  J.R. Miller

  Prayer, Memories, Home

  "Making the Most of Life".

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• Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

  Euripides

  Cures, Young, Stills

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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Light, Silence, Dumb

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Suicide, Funeral

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.92, University of Georgia Press

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Alcohol, Reactions, Wells

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

  Lord Byron

  Sad, Flower, Yellow

  'On This Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year' (1824).

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• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Heart, Beer, Alcohol

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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