Grief Quotes - page 23

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong. (James A. Forbes)
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money. View quote
James Buchan
I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man. View quote
Kesha
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. View quote
Kevin Gates
In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost. View quote
Kristin Hannah
My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. View quote
Linda Hamilton
Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?" "Of course not." "But he's..." "He's sweet," Molly insisted. Dare snorted. "He's still listening. View quote
Lori Foster
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that. View quote
Lasse Hallstrom
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.' View quote
Andre Dubus III
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got. View quote
Chris Jordan
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children. (John Gibbon)
I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. View quote
Meghan O'Rourke
This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands. (Meghan O'Rourke)
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules. View quote
Mike Mills
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good. View quote
Mike Mills
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. View quote
Morena Baccarin
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief. View quote
Nicos Anastasiades