Best body & grief Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.”

Soul Matter God Body Light Joy Grief Shining Gods Will Candle

Book:The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life

Source: The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life

“I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.”

Body Joy Grief Sadness Rhythm

Author:Inga Muscio

“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.”

Body Joy Fall Sides Grief Mystery Fields Ready Summer Glory Rose Lifetime Fishes Seeds Boat Shock Sand Silver Willingness Pale Leafs Submission Unfathomable

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.”

Ifs Needs Mind Soul Body Grief Your Body Drunk Your Soul Relief Purses

Book:Lapsus Calami and Other Verses

Source: Lapsus Calami and Other Verses

“I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.”

Body Grief Gone Alive Broken Incapable Divulge

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.”

Whole Body Death Universe Grief Alive Brother Filled Errors Scales Immortality My Brother Immortal Concealed Outrage Younger Brother

Author:Marguerite Duras

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