Grief Quotes
You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.
The five stages of bureaucratic grieving are: denial, anger, committee meetings, scapegoating, and cover-up.
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.
My heart felt withered, a neglected fruit that would never again sweeten, now that my love was dead.
Now, what’s stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history.
Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.
If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.
I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.
After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism
Death finds you in such strange poses. How long can you cry, until the rivers gone and dry.
God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.
Feb. 1, 1965Storm late at night, heavy rain, a thunderous racket, the windows shaking. I heard my name called. A woman’s voice in hell pleading with me to join her.
Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.
But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try, ' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.
I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.
The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.