Grief Quotes
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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.
Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.
There is no such thing as was - only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!
Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers.
We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.
Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.
Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can understand.
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief
Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good.
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!
When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.
After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.
When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief.
At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?