Grief Quotes - page 10

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. (Alcaeus of Mytilene)
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas. View quote
John Millington Synge
At the vital moment there seems to be a failure of leadership, and also a failure of the general human spirit among the peoples. I hope I am wrong, but I have a sense of impending calamity, a fear that the war was only the vanguard of calamity ... I cannot look at that draft treaty without a sense of grief and shame. View quote
Jan Smuts
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit. View quote
Upton Sinclair
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. View quote
Orson Scott Card
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief. View quote
Anthony Burgess
A heavy task, but there was light relief In the Germanic ambience, boisterous, brash, Torchlit parades and pogroms, guttural grief In emigration queues, the smash and crash Of pawnshop windows by insentient beef In uniform, the gush of beer, the splash Of schnapps, the joy of being drunk and Aryan, Though Hitler was a teetotalitarian. Human pain meant But little in the Gulf War's visual grammar, a Big feast of death to feed the cinecamera. View quote
Anthony Burgess
It is very difficult to explain what takes place in me when I see or hear anything majestic which allows no doubt that it proceeds from the actualization of Our Maker Creator. Each time, my tears flow of themselves. I weep, that is to say, it weeps in me, not from grief, no, but as if from tenderness. (G. I. Gurdjieff)
He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
To the Gods we ne'er can render Praise for every good they grant; Let us, with devotion tender, Minister to grief and want. Quenched be hate and wrath forever, Pardoned be our mortal foe- May our tears upbraid him never, No repentance bring him low! View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Take from my head the thorn-wreath brown! No mortal grief deserves that crown. O supreme Love, chief misery, The sharp regalia are for Thee Whose days eternally go on!'For us, - whatever's undergone, Thou knowest, willest what is done, Grief may be joy misunderstood; Only the Good discerns the good. I trust Thee while my days go on. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She didn't feel anything, no grief or remorse, though her heart was racing and her breath came in gasps. A shocky combat-high, that immortal rush that made men charge machine guns. So this was what the war-addicts came for. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. View quote
Gideon Welles
There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it. View quote
Jodi Picoult
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. (Jodi Picoult)
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Envy comes from wanting something that isn't yours, but grief comes from losing something you've already had. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you? View quote
Cassandra Clare