G Quotes
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“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Grief is a flow of memories, changing forms along the way, from tears to tales of the past we once had, with those we love to the deep.”
“Grief is a flower on the tree of love.”
Source: Soul Comfort: Uplifting Insights Into the Nature of Grief, Death, Consciousness and Love for Transformation
“Grief is a form of growth that in gradual excess becomes graphic and grotesque.”
“Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.”
Source: September
“Grief is a ghost that shows up uninvited.”
“Grief is a ghost that visits without warning. It comers in the night and rips you from your sleep. It fills your chest with shards of glass. It interrupts you mid-laugh when you're at a party, chastising you that, just for a moment, you've forgotten. It haunts you until it becomes a part of you, shading you breath for breath.”
Source: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
“Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.”
Source: Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel
“Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your understanding of the world. This means that for the brain, your loved one is simultaneously gone and also everlasting, and you are walking through two worlds at the same time. You are navigating your life despite the fact that they have been stolen from you, a premise that makes no sense, and that is both confusing and upsetting.”
Source: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
“Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.”
“grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to reflect us
the walls how to contain us
grief is a house that disappears
each time someone knocks at the door
or rings the bell
a house that blows into the air
at the slightest gust
that buries itself deep in the ground
while everyone is sleeping
grief is a house where no one can protect you
where the younger sister
will grow older than the older one
where the doors
no longer let you in
or out”
Source: The Sky Is Everywhere
“Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.”
Source: Sisters
“Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface.”
Source: Banyan Moon
“Grief is a lonely basement guest room. No one, not even your sister, can join you there.”
Source: Untamed
“Grief is a luxury for those living an easier life.”
“Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death
“Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Suffering is the optional part. Remember that you come into this world in the middle of the movie, and you leave in the middle; and so do the people you love. Love never dies, and spirit knows no loss.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Heart: Finding Peace After a Breakup, Divorce, or Death
“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”
Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha
“Grief is a natural process. You grieve when you give attention to someone's absence from your Life. But there's another way to deal with such irreparable loss. Try celebrating that person's Life – what did they stand for, what did you learn from them, who did they love, what would they have loved for you to do?...And go celebrate all these qualities of them/in them by living your Life fully, in celebration....When you transform your grief into celebration, you come alive. You will feel the pain (of separation) but you will not suffer. And when you are not suffering, you are flowing with Life...then you are not missing the absence of someone, you are feeling their essence; their presence is felt through the essence of who they were/what they were!”
“Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.”
“Grief is a normal, natural human experience.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”
Source: Engleby
“Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.”
“Grief is a process, not a state.”
“Grief
is a river you wade in until you get to the other side.
But I am here, stuck in the middle, water parting
around my ankles, moving downstream
over the flat rocks. I'm not able to lift a foot,
move on. Instead, I'm going to stay here
in the shallows with my sorrow, nurture it
like a cranky baby, rock it in my arms.
I don't want it to grow up, go to school, get married.
It's mine. Yes, the October sunlight wraps me
in its yellow shawl, and the air is sweet
as a golden Tokay. On the other side,
there are apples, grapes, walnuts,
and the rocks are warm from the sun.
But I'm going to stand here,
growing colder, until every inch
of my skin is numb. I can't cross over.
Then you really will be gone.”
Source: Gold
“Grief is a shape-shifter, it defies logic, sneaking up on you when you least expect it and leaving you empty-handed and hollow when you go searching for it.”
Source: The Golden Couple
“Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.”
“Grief is a sin. Loss is God’s design, and to mourn the dead is to insult
His vision. To despair at His will is sacrilege. How dare you betray His
plan by grieving what was always His to take? Unfaithful, disgusting heretic,
you should be hung from the wall so the nonbelievers will know what’s
coming for them.”
Source: Hell Followed With Us
“Grief is a sin. Loss is God’s design, and to mourn the dead is to insult His vision. To despair at His will is sacrilege. How dare you betray His plan by grieving what was always His to take? Unfaithful, disgusting heretic, you should be hung from the wall so the nonbelievers will know what’s coming for them. Romans 6:23—for the wages of sin is death.”
Source: Hell Followed With Us
“Grief is a small cup of tea in the evening
I come back to it everyday.”
Source: Sun On My Hands: A Poetry and Prose Collection
“Grief is a species of idleness.”
“Grief is a strange thing. It shows up in the oddest of places. As time passes, it becomes threaded into your life in a subtle way you don't quite notice at first. When you smile and feel real joy but at the same moment tears spring to your eyes, that's when you know that grief is not absent even in happiness.”
“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.”
Source: 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Grief is a swarm of feelings that swirls inside of you for your whole life; it's a weight that settles around the eyes, transforms the shape of a laugh. It is sadness mixed with a furious rage churning in an ocean of helplessness. It's an old word, dating back to the 1200s, and its latin roots mean to "make heavy." The first six definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary describe various types of hardship or physical pain. The seventh definition makes me think grief is the correct term for the storm of emotion I associate with my mom's mental illness. "Mental pain, distress, or sorry...deep or violent sorrow, caused by loss or trouble; a keen or bitter feeling of regret for something lost, remorse for something done, or sorrow for mishap to oneself or others.”
Source: And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir – A Poignant and Inspiring Coming-of-Age Story About Mothers and Daughters
“Grief is a tunnel, not a cave.”
Source: The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
“Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.”
“Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us.”
Source: The Corset
“Grief is a weird thing, Percy, because no two people experience it the same.”
Source: Belladonna
“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.”
Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief
“Grief is about two years long, they say, it is a platitude out of manuals for grievers. But we are in mourning for our mothers before even we are born.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“Grief is always amplified in silence.”
Source: The Counting-Downers
“Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.”
Source: Forgetting: impressions from the millennial borderland
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.”
Source: Slade House
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.”
Source: Slade House
“Grief is an animal you can never quite tame: after a long silence in the shadows, it may stir again and scratch open the wounds that soul-sickness feeds on.”
Source: The Moonday Letters
“Grief is an aspect of love, a reflection of the ability to connect. As the heart can grow bigger to allow more love, it can also do so for grief. I don't want any more of my patients to die, but I know that they will. And although I don't want more grief in my life, I know that the connections that permit grief to occur are the connections that keep us -- doctors and patients -- alive.”
Source: What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine