Grief Quotes - Page 35

• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

  Joan Rivers

  Hurt, Fear, Grieving

  "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" by Readers Digest, (p. 87), 1997.

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• Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Heart, Grieving, Knowing

  Morgan Llywelyn (2010). “The Wind From Hastings”, p.198, Macmillan

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• All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

  Robert Frost

  Grieving, Trying, Relief

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day:
  Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away,
  To sleep! to sleep!
  Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past:
  Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Sleep, Past

  "The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion". Play by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1892.

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• To suppress the grief, the pain, is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means becoming completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length.

  Philip Kapleau

  Pain, Mean, Grieving

  Philip Kapleau (1990). “The Wheel of Life and Death: A Practical and Spiritual Guide”

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• Grief is the price of victory.

  Frank Herbert

  Victory, Aging

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Personality, Aging

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Men

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• Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in its place. As our mind clings to the familiar, to our established expectations, we can become trapped in feelings of disappointment, confusion, anger, that create our own internal worlds of suffering.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Letting Go, Disappointment, Anger

  Daniel J. Siegel (2010). “Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation”, p.6, Bantam

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• The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

  Wilfred Owen

  Hope, Sadness, Boys

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

  Max Beerbohm

  Light, Hypocrisy, Grumbling

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.71, 1st World Publishing

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• It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

  William Hazlitt

  Sadness, Taste, Misery

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• Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Bitter, Jest, Scorn

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.14

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• I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

  Ann Richards

  Sadness, Thinking, Deals

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Passion, Childhood

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Loss

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• Youth holds no society with grief.

  Euripides

  Time, Youth

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.173

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• Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.

  Samuel Johnson

  Heart, Fate, Bitter

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.22

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• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

  Euripides

  Fathers Day, Children, Disappointment

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Rivers, Intuition

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Spiritual, Men, Love Is

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• Inflamed by greed, incensed by hate, confused by delusion, overcome by them, obsessed by mind, a man chooses for his own affliction, for others' affliction, for the affliction of both and experiences pain and grief.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Hate, Confused

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• When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Enemy, Glory

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3198, Delphi Classics

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• Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Honesty, Ears, Pierce

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.541

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