G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.”
“Grief, he said, is carnivorous.”
“Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.”
“Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
“Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.”
“Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.”
“Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.”
Source: Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free
“Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn't mean it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't mean it doesn't rip your heart out....In great grief, there's an incredible love in it. In love there's a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say 'all love is bittersweet'. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.”
“Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.”
“Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
“Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.”
“Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
Source: Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet
“Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.”
“Griefs assured are felt before they come.”
“Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.”
“Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“griefs, when divided become less poignant.”
Source: Castle of Wolfenbach
“grievance does not make for great art.”
“Grievance management not only solves complaints but also changes behaviors.”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.”
Source: The Robert Frost Reader: Poetry and Prose
“Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.”
“Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.”
Source: Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man
“Grieve for your friend, but never blame yourself. You did not kill the butcher's boy. That murder lies at the Hound's door, him and the cruel woman he serves.”
Source: A Game of Thrones
“Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.”
“Grieve not for the shell that is discarded. The universe has not lost a soul.”
“Grieve not that I die young.
Is it not well to pass away
ere life hath lost its brightness?”
“Grieve not that men do not know you;
grieve that you do not know men.”
Source: Lun Yü
“Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.”
“Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.”
“Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.”
“Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.”
“Grieve out your betrayal, mourn over everything that went astray, this is an important beginning step towards your healing.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else”
Source: Nejma
“Grieve your childhood and mourn the loss of those who failed you.”
Source: When Roses are Crushed
“Griever, to cry is expected; to laugh is divine”
Source: The Fine Art of Grieving
“Grievers often bear the disproportionate burden of needing to “teach” others how to support them in grief... and not everybody is a willing or capable “student.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let go of the things that are gone and you mourn for them. One by one you take hold of the things that have become a part of who you are and build again.”
“Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
“Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.”
“Grieving is a matter of relearning how to be in the world.”
“Grieving is a messy process, and you yearn for it to just go away. You don't know when a sunset or a trip to the pharmacy is going to trigger a memory that crushes your spirit.”
Source: Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
“Grieving is accepting what I’ve just lost so I don’t lose what I’m about to gain.”
“Grieving is like being ill. You think the entire world revolves around you and it doesn't.”
Source: V is for Vengeance
“Grieving is mental suffering. It's a visceral response to an overabundance of heartache.”
Source: Life Forgotten
“Grieving is the navigating of uncharted waters, wave by wave.”
“Grieving is the process of emotionally navigating a loss. Navigating the loss of a dream is where grief can come as a surprise. It's possible to grieve something you never had.”
Source: Decluttering at the Speed of Life / Mind Over Clutter
“Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.”
“Grieving requires softening your self-protective defense mechanisms enough to feel: getting beyond the denial, numbness, righteousness, apathy, and other obstacles we have put In place to avoid the depths of pain. The humanity that was previously made invisible must be made visible again.”
Source: Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
“Grieving the death of my parents was already hard enough, but having to grieve someone that was alive was ten times harder.”
Source: Capone
“Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.”
Source: Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals