Grief Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

  Morena Baccarin

  Emotion, Spontaneity, Dichotomy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

  Horace

  Literature, Firsts, Emotion

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Long Distance Relationship, Loss, Broken

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.344, Scholastic Inc.

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• He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

  Richard Barnfield

  Best Friend, Heart, Sleep

  Richard Barnfield, “An Ode”

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• It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Drawing, Expectations

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.453

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• It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

  Ovid

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Tears

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• He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Cigarette Smoke, Smoking, Heaven

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book I, Chapter VI, 1858.

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• Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Loss, Compassion

  'Timon Of Athens' act 5, sc. 1, l. [203]

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• Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Jesus, Compassion, Understanding

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• ...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to which we know that the hand of death is about to put an end.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Long, Age

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• Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

  Kim Edwards

  Father

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.305, Penguin

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• Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.

  Marcel Proust

  Sympathy, Memories, Healing

  Marcel Proust (1966). “Letters of Marcel Proust”

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• Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

  Thomas Golden, Jr.

  Grieving, Smell, Bigs

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• If ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Truth, Honesty, Tired

  Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Goose-Girl”

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• In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Strong, Loss

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• Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

  Bryan Procter

  Band, Literature, Speak

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.218

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• I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

  Mary Schmich

  Mother, Sibling, Play

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.28, Agate Digital

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• May tender memories soften your grief, May fond recollection bring you relief, And may you find comfort and peace in the thought Of the joy that knowing your loved one brought... For time and space can never divide Or keep your loved one from your side. When memory paints in colors true, the happy hours that belonged to you.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sympathy, Memories, Space

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• Grass grows at last above all graves.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Hope, Lasts, Grass

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Mourning, Members, Stakes

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