Grief Quotes - page 27

His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss. (Robin Hobb)
I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. View quote
Robin Hobb
Grief is as contagious as a yawn. View quote
Sue Grafton
I knew a girl, once, immortal like me-" "And she was with someone mortal?" said Alec. "What happened?" "He died," Magnus said. There was a finality to the way he said it that spoke of a deeper grief than words could paint. View quote
Cassandra Clare
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness. View quote
Ann Richards
Yet all does the sire himself ruthlessly condemn to the murky flames, and bid his own signs of rank be borne withal, if by their loss he may sate his devouring grief. View quote
Statius
If you look at the poems in Prelude, you can identify the later material by identifying the poems with more white space and unexpected line breaks. Grief did that to me and my writing. It exploded my expectations and introduced these blank pockets of deep feeling. My prose writing became more fluid and lyrical... View quote
Saeed Jones
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. (Joan Didion)
It is an old belief That on some solemn shore Beyond the sphere of grief Dear friends shall meet once more. View quote
John Gibson Lockhart
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends to happen when one is once or twice removed from grief, I stopped thinking about them all the time. View quote
Ayobami Adebayo
Poetry is the art that is closest to music, standing between music and narrative orality (which can be speechmaking, sermon or theater). Poetry is the voice of what can't be spoken, the mode of truth-telling when meaning needs to rise above or skim below everyday language in shapes not discernible by the ordinary mind. It trumps the rhetoric of politicians. Poetry is prophetic by nature and not bound by time. Because of these qualities poetry carries grief, heartache, ecstasy, celebration, despair, or searing truth more directly than any other literary art form. It is ceremonial in nature. Poetry is a tool for disruption and creation and is necessary for generations of humans to know who they are and who they are becoming in the wave map of history. Without poetry, we lose our way. View quote
Joy Harjo
Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it. View quote
Richie Sambora
Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you. View quote
Richie Sambora
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind. View quote
Julian Barnes
Snoopy (musing on his rooftop) Good Grief Is it November already My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the 'Fast Forward' button. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost. View quote
Denis Leary
I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. (Marianne Williamson)
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. View quote
Marianne Williamson
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
We had stood as the sure stars stand, and moved As the moon moves, loving the world; and seen Grief collapse as a thing disproved, Death consume as a thing unclean. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Though joy be done with and grief be vain, Time shall not sever us wholly in twain; Earth is not spoilt for a single shower; But the rain has ruined the ungrown corn. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne