G Quotes
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“Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.”
Source: The Long Goodbye
“Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.”
“Grief is pervasive. It cannot be quarantined any more than love can be quarantined. Grief affects all areas of life.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.”
“Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain.”
“Grief is selfish: we cry for ourselves without the person we have lost far more than we cry for the person.”
Source: Our Wives Under the Sea
“Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.”
“Grief is shameless; it refuses to be ignored. If you let it have its way, it becomes fatal. If you try to remove it piece by piece, it only multiplies like a tumor. And if you try to fight it, it becomes like quicksand; you try to claw your way back to the surface, and for a second you feel the fresh air against your face, thinking you've survived, only to be pulled fiercely back down again, swallowed whole, nothing left.”
Source: Crossing
“Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.”
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“Grief is strange. It doesn’t care about rules. It creeps up on you when you least expect it, sinking into your bones to drag you under just when you think you can breathe again.”
Source: Harper's Landing
“Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.”
Source: The Silver Dark Sea
“Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Grief is the beast with the sharpest claws. It’s sacred. It’s consuming. It’s unstoppable. You, my rarest reader, must already fathom how it cannot be cast aside or defeated, for this book would not have found you otherwise. The beast will wound you deeply. There will be times when you are certain it will kill you. And yet, you will endure. Until the pain you deemed a punishment becomes your reward, guiding you to a realm of peace that will be only yours and yours alone – just as the beast that delivered you there.
Excerpt from The Book of Revenge, Müneccimbaşı Sufi Chelebi’s Journals of Mystical Phenomena”
Source: The Book of Heartbreak
“Grief is the best opener of some hearts, and Jo's was nearly ready for the bag. A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet. If she suspected this, she would have shut up tight, and been more prickly than ever, fortunately she wasn't thinking about herself, so when the time came, down she dropped.”
Source: Little Women
“Grief is the deepest, swiftest river you will drown in”
Source: The Fine Art of Grieving
“Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.”
“Grief is the doorway to a new world. Those who left, now return in many forms, as stories, as poems, to speak of the lives once lived, of the love once shared. Something closed, but something opened.”
“Grief is the echo of love refusing to vanish.”
“Grief is the footprint of love that no tide can erase. Grief is the tumbling ache in your chest, for you know they are never coming back.”
“Grief is the hardest emotion to describe, because so much of it is numbness; it is also passive, something one undergoes rather than something one undertakes. It becomes difficult to locate oneself. When Maria went missing, a part of me did too. My capacity for love, which had always seemed elusive and equivocal even to me, was bound up in my relationship with her. I discovered that after her death. I had not known it before. It is a familiar story. There is nothing original about pain.”
Source: Fragrant Harbor
“Grief is the language that love speaks after loss.”
“Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.”
“Grief is the parachute of love, that never really got the chance to embrace the view.”
“Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.”
“Grief is the price of victory.”
Source: DUNE
“Grief is the price one pays for love.”
“Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.”
“Grief is the price we pay for deep love.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love, but it is also a gift.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Grief is the price we pay for love.
(From Queen's message to New York following 9/11)”
“Grief is the price we pay for love, the saying goes; I would add that all forms of psychological distress are the price we pay for being alive. Suffering is part of being human.”
Source: Losing Our Minds: The Challenge of Defining Mental Illness
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
“Grief is the scent of a story we once wove, a gift, that the past comes back to give to the hearts torn by loss.”
“Grief is the shadow side of love.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are.
It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway.
A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time.”
Source: Nestlings
“Grief is the tax we pay for loyalty.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.”
Source: Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
“Grief is the whisper of memories as they sit heavily in the chest. Grief is the love ungiven that refuses to die. Grief is the gathering of clouds when it should have been sunshine.”
“Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can be no escape of reprieve. You must toil laying down the foundation stones of acceptance, stone by stone, until you have paved your way to your new life.”
Source: Forgotten Wisdom
“Grief is unpredictable, and that’s exactly how it should be. If you feel like you’re stuck on a roller coaster or caught up in an unnavigable storm, you are not alone. I often think of grief like a slot machine. Each day I wake up, the dials turn, the combinations of emotions and experiences go round and round, and the wheels stop at whatever strange combination I’m about to experience that day. No two grief days are alike . . . and that’s normal.”
Source: Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“Grief is visceral, not reasonable: the howling at the center of grief is raw and real. It is love in its most wild form.”
Source: It's OK That You're Not OK
“Grief is weird. Some days I can go hours without thinking about the fact that he’s gone. It wasn’t like that the first couple of months. It just changes one day, and you don’t even realize how it happened. It sneaks up so quietly, this invisible barrier that slowly stretches out the amount of time between those thoughts. And then you go, oh yeah, I’m still really sad about this”
Source: Forever Starts Tonight
“Grief is what tells you who you are alone.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“Grief is wild like the sea, but it doesn’t need to destroy us. We can’t conquer it, but we can navigate it, and we can find Jesus there too.”
“Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.”
Source: The governess
“Grief isn’t a competition. It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalised by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.”
Source: Bloodmarked
“Grief isn't a competition," she says”
“Grief isn’t a process to go through. Grief isn’t a problem to overcome. Grief isn’t something to put behind you. Grief is a gift. Yes, you read that last sentence correctly: at some point during the past seventeen months, I realized the truth that grief is a gift.”
Source: Come As You Are: Meditation & Grief
“Grief isn’t elegant. It is messy, snot-nosed, feral, aching. A beast that slobbers into one’s sane moments and scratches the door of one’s composure insistently, demanding to be let out.”
Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“Grief isn’t just something that happens when people or pets die; it happens when people experience trauma, illness, and the loss of themselves.”