Grief Quotes - page 16

God involves continuous awareness of finiteness, supreme capacity to feel grief, the renouncing of divine attributes in order to become pure giving, infinite love, redemption and consolation. (Aldo Capitini)
Grief like anything else – like a stone – is content only; God gives us the form, that serenity, purity and self-possession with which to surround and live grief. View quote
Aldo Capitini
Thus the more readily we accept grief, the deeper in us the awakening of the love which is not attachment but a positive serenity, pure and full of faith, the infinite in a loving act, even though in bitterness and tears. View quote
Aldo Capitini
Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. View quote
Sarah Dessen
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. View quote
Victor Hugo
Grief: An emotional experience often brought about by a great sense of loss. The subject of this loss is completely immaterial. View quote
Peter Greenaway
I don't know how this will end. All I know is Nanhoï's love. My son is my life. I believe in the magic of this love. He is the embodiment of life to me. The embodiment of beauty. Through him I'll find redemption and salvation. Then the wound in my soul - the wound I thought would never scar over - will stop bleeding. I thought I would have to tear it open once it began to heal. Back then, when I felt I couldn't stop being what is called an actor, when I told myself I was only doing it for the money and that it could be worse. Now, today, I'd rather be poor, but without nightmares and without the torture. If only I could! I wish I'd never been an actor! I wish I'd never had success! I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and joy. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. (Lord Byron)
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
That sad and joyful dawn, light full of pity and grief, while the world wakes in loneliness I'll praise it and remember it. View quote
Luís de Camões
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief. View quote
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain. View quote
Angelus Silesius
The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,-it must have been Very pretty. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. View quote
John Green (author)
All young gentle dreams drowning In life's grief Can you hang on to me? View quote
Kate Bush
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. View quote
Homer
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns. View quote
Homer
Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo. (Hisham Matar)
The puella mother who has never taken up residence in her own body, and therefore fears her own chthonic nature, is not going to experience pregnancy as a quiet meditation with her unborn child, nor birth as a joyful bonding experience. Although she may go through the motions of natural childbirth, the psyche/soma split in her is so deep that physical bonding between her and her baby daughter does not take place. Her child lives with a profound sense of despair, a despair which becomes conscious if in later years she does active imagination with her body and releases waves of grief and terror that resonate with the initial, primal rejection. [...] The body that appears in dreams wrapped in fire, encircled by a black snake or encumbered by a fish tail from the waist down, may be holding a death-wish too deep for tears. View quote
Marion Woodman
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. View quote
Molière
a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief. View quote
William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help; Should be past grief. View quote
William Shakespeare