Grief Quotes - Page 40

• Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Joy, Overcoming

  Vittorio Alfieri (1821). “Tragedies”, p.265

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• The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Agony, Profound, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.

  Sarada Devi

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  "Thus Spake the Holy Mother". Book by Sarada Devi, 1985.

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• People complain about their griefs and sorrows and how they pray to God but find no relief from pain. But grief itself is a gift from God. It is the symbol of His compassion.

  Sarada Devi

  Pain, Compassion, People

  "In the Company of the Holy Mother" by Advaita Ashrama, (pp. 220-221), 1993.

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• Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

  Dan Simmons

  Pain, Flower, Joy

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• Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Disappointment, Joy, Miracle

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• Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Self, Tree, Mules

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• Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Joy, Poetry, Tolls

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.178, Knopf

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• But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Healing, Heart, Tears

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• The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Determination, Strong, Zero

  "Global Catastrophic Risks". Chapter: "Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks". Book edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic, 2008.

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

  Adam Rapp

  Rain, Heart, Weather

  Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

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• There is no logic to grief.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Logic

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.185, Hachette UK

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• grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping

  Jandy Nelson

  Sleep, Blow, Air

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.55, Penguin

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• A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's real self secret, the possibility of something lasting forever: love, hate, grief.

  Kelly Link

  Sex, Hate, Real

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• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Suicide, Perspective, Guilt

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Drunk, Soul, Mind

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Hate, Mercy Of God, Hatred

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Strong, Dark, Night

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• When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.

  Rachel Whiteread

  Kids, People, Ovens

  2001 From an interview on www.guggenheim.org, 18 Apr.

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• I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense - their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.

  Nick Xenophon

  People, Justice, Let Down

  "Legal Eagles Discuss Justice System". "Stateline" on ABC, May 13, 2005.

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• Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Sustenance

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• Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;  Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Silence, Secret, Sorrow

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63

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• I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

  Scott Niedermayer

  Mom, Brother, Nhl

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• Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

  Jackie Gleason

  Golf, Wind, Like You

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