Grief Quotes - Page 37

• Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Echoes, Mountain, Voiceless

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, G. Cuningham (1856). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: With Notes”, p.348

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• So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Understanding, Feelings, Littles

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Liberty, Thirsty

  'To Althea, From Prison'

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• No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Giving Up, Pain, Attachment

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Sep 07, 2016

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• Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

  John Fletcher

  Dream, Sadness, Joy

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle”, p.240

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• Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

  Tibullus

  Example, Subjects, Thyself

  "Carmina". III. 6. 43,

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• But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

  Joanna Baillie

  Sad, Summer, Women

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.48

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• A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.

  Clark Moustakas

  Support, Joy, Understanding

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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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• No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

  Franz Schubert

  Sympathy, Joy

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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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• But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Giving, Bird, Comfort

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.66

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• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.

  Nancy A. Collins

  Wisdom, Powerful, Self Confidence

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• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, Heart, Army

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

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• Small leisure have the poor for grief.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Leisure, Poverty, Poor

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1875). “Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl”, p.44

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• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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• There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

  Pythagoras

  Eye, Two, Tears

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• The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

  William Osler

  Men, Joy, Sorrow

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.31, ACP Press

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• Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Meaningful, Disappointment

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

  Esther Hicks

  Death, Believe, Reason

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• Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

  Adrienne Rich

  Women, Tears, Equal

  Adrienne Rich (1967). “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield.

  Blake Butler

  Reading, Men, Hands

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• For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Insomnia, Men, Years

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Compassion, Mind, Would Be

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