Grief Quotes - page 15

When you see on the news or read in the newspaper that so many people were killed in places far away, do not let these numbers become mere abstractions to you. These are real people, like you and I. They are families, friends; they have pain, they have grief. (Hamid Karzai)
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart. View quote
Hesiod
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all! View quote
Emily Dickinson
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. View quote
James Russell Lowell
He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten. View quote
Brandon Sanderson
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. View quote
Swami Sivananda
She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for. View quote
Terry Pratchett
There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed him self on all sides, and thrown off all fetters. View quote
Annie Besant
Grief carries its own antidote along with it. (Charles Brockden Brown)
A minister says to me that I am going to hell-that I am bound to be punished forever and ever-and thereupon I say to him: "There is no hell you are mistaken; your Bible is not inspired; no human being is to suffer agony forever;” and thereupon, with an injured look, he asks me this question: "Why do you hurt my feelings?” It does not occur to him that I have the slightest right to object to his sentence of eternal grief. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
After a death, you eat and drink and remember the good things and try to laugh again. Grief profits no one, least of all the departed, who are quit of it for ever. View quote
Morris West
And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. View quote
Mary Shelley
Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated. View quote
Alexander Maclaren
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief. View quote
Amy Hempel
I have a "Task": To foster all mankind and ensure for all of them lives full of ananda (bliss). I have a "Vow": To lead all who stray away from the straight path again into goodness and save them. I am attached to a "work" that I love: To remove the sufferings of the poor and grant them what they lack. I have a "reason to be proud", for I rescue all who worship and adore me, aright. I have my definition of the "devotion" I expect: Those devoted to me have to treat joy and grief, gain and loss, with equal fortitude. This means that I will never give up those who attach themselves to me. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba
And thus she helps the Maid to check her grief Which, being vented, is less bitter now. View quote
Ludovico Ariosto
On the wings of Time grief flies away. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. (Herman Melville)
Why does he not know how to select servants? The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief. View quote
Stendhal
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. View quote
Christian Nestell Bovee
From the retinue of Mynyddog they hastened forth; in a shining array they fed together round the wine-vessel. My heart has become full of grief for the feast of Mynyddog, I have lost too many of my true kinsmen. View quote
Aneirin
If we cannot take away all the grief, all the evil, all the death, we will start with loving everyone, trying ourselves not to give the grief, the evil, the death, with the faith that the rest of the grief, evil and death will disappear. View quote
Aldo Capitini