Best Grief Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 13

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

Today Grief Tears Tomorrow Waste Losing Tragedy Yesterday Worried

Author:Euripides

“Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.”

Wells Grief

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.”

People World Order President Grief Introducing Secretary President Bush Defence World Order Clutch

Author:Robert Fisk

“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”

“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!”

Ifs Knows World Firsts Believe Persons Earth Universe Pleasure Grief This World Please Let Me Misery Almighty Woe Diseased Omniscient Nero

Author:Bhagat Singh

“When it comes to women, our perfectionism gives us a lot of grief. Women want to be super moms, super partners and super performers at work - and all at the same time. That's stressful.”

Want Giving Grief Mom Partners Performers Stressful Perfectionism Women Want

Author:Kristina Schroder

“The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.”

Grief Losing Useless Dna Blokes Losing Myself

Author:Beth Orton

“If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.”

Ifs Feels Children Ends Self Feelings Lasts Grief Concerned Revenge Intense My Children Fades Intense Feelings

Author:Galen Strawson

“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.”

Firsts Wanted Causes Process Grief Essence Weight Guilt Misery Burden Melancholy Rejected Homosexuality Outlook Despised Deviate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.”

Book Matter Light Loss Grief Written Loneliness Moved Amused Grief Loss Gail

Author:Frederick Buechner

“So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.”

Giving Feels Firsts May Whole Feelings Body Light Seems Pain Turns Dark Grief Attention Consciousness Darkness Loneliness Your Body Cells Flames Urges Dread Refrain Labeling

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“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.”

Way Giving Persons Would Be Suffering Natural Grief Products Grieving Richness

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life”

Years Grief Rangers Griefing Those Grieving

Author:Paul Gascoigne

“Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .”

Way Wells May Matter Belief Realizing Natural Loss Grief Forever Our Lives Essentials Normal Majors Expectations Track Recovery Willingness Halt Accompany Major Change

Author:Judy Tatelbaum

“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”

Mind Humans Grief Blow Human Mind Anguish Fuse

Book:Mister God, This is Anna

Source: Mister God, This is Anna

“Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.”

Ends Grief Middle Plot Smooth

Book:Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

Source: Comfort: A Journey Through Grief

“Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.”

Powerful Grief Most Powerful Aphrodisiac Wedding Crasher

Author:Will Ferrell

“Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.”

Ifs Hard Running Grief Wind Blow Gentle Swim Sail Sailing Harbors Picnics

Author:Barbara Ascher

“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices”

Ifs Way Needs Self Choices Answers Grief Poverty Ignorance Keys Shame Obvious Unhappy Pity Better Ways Self Pity Wallowing

Author:Og Mandino

“Grief is as contagious as a yawn.”

Grief Contagious

Book:V is for Vengeance

Source: V is for Vengeance

“When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.”

Giving Believe Faces Joy Grief Sun Dying Shadow Give Me Endure Erase Give Me Strength Shadow Of Death

Author:William Wallace

“Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When thou thinkest thyself farthest off from me, oftentimes I am nearest unto thee. When thou countest almost all to be lost, then oftentimes the greatest gain of reward is close at hand. All is not lost, when any thing falleth out contrary. Thou oughtest not to judge according to present feeling; nor so to take any grief, or give thyself over to it.”

Giving Heart Feelings Hands Lost Grief Judging Gains Mercy Rewards Contrary Thee Thyself

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.”

World Grief Around The World Wheels

Author:Rashi

“I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.”

My Own Grief Swim Pool Neurosis Irishmen

Author:Richard Harris

“But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.”

Moments Running Faces Joy Suffering Understanding Dark Pleasure Grief Sacrifice Mirrors Enjoyed Enjoyment Departure Arrivals Treasured Sicilian Mirror Image

Book:Sicilian Odyssey

Source: Sicilian Odyssey

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.”

Looks Heart Eye Life Is Fall Jesus Left Grief Too Much Tears Mines My Heart Stones Wit Hills Lifts Leafs Everlasting Numb Falling Leaves

Author:Christina Rossetti

“One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.”

Thinking Trying Kind Helping Seems Remember Certain Courses Individual Grief Risk Normal Research Difficulty Abnormal Reckoning

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out - the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past - all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.”

Thinking Way Writing Persons Moments Shows Feelings Dream Past Grief Streets Strange Research Longing Best Way Your Dreams Intensity Peculiar Glimpse

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.”

People Way Different Deals Grief Emotion Range Different Peoples Range Of Emotions

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I think that grief is a profound spiritual, metaphysical, and - oddly - physical reckoning with death, which we don't understand well. It's both the process by which you relearn the world in the absence of someone who was a pillar in it, and the process in which you confront the reality of death.”

Thinking World Wells Reality Spiritual Process Grief Profound Absence Metaphysical Pillars Reckoning Profound Spiritual Reality Of Death

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.”

Ends Grief Perspective Sorrow Deeper

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.”

Pain Parent Grief Blessing Painful Sibling

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“It's hard to make progress with grief.”

Hard Grief Progress

Author:Martin Amis

“I get recognised a lot. If there are a load of school kids together, they'll shout at me, but I'm quite good at giving grief back. I give as good as I get.”

Ifs Giving Kids School Together Grief Load

Author:Konnie Huq

“I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.”

People Way Sometimes Form Choices Grief Episodes Resilient Wrong Choices

Author:Atom Egoyan

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”

“Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.”

“There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.”

May Character Common Grief Special Sorrow Accepted Submission

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.”

Knows Feelings Life Is Joy Suffering Three Enjoy Born Grief Sorrow Eternal Bliss Woe Three Times Joy Of Life Duration

Book:The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them”

Pain Grief Warrior

Book:Tales of Power

Source: Tales of Power

“Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.”

Ends Grief Weakness Passages Lack Of Faith Grieving A Death Death And Grieving Death Grieving Price Of Love

Author:Elizabeth I

“Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.”

Grief Taxes Forethought

Author:Wendell Berry

“I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts.”

Lasts Grief Fulfilled

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Long Doe Has Beens Lying Dies Courses Chance Grief Forever Impossible Loved Ones Rest Of Your Life

Author:John Green

“No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.”

Men Young Life Is Dies Courses Lost Hours Grief Break Taken Horse Very Good Young Man Necks Riding Honorable Ruined Saddles

Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.”

Christ Grief Weak Died Grieving Great Love Weak Faith

Book:The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World

Source: The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World

“The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.”

Moments Running Forget Grief Trauma

Author:Fauja Singh

“What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.”

“When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.”

Has Beens Country States Enough Bigs Winning Loses Grief Pay Support Politician Taxes Benefits Concerned Vote Congress Welfare Voting Deficit Taxpayers Welfare State Win Win

Author:Thomas Sowell

“...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.”

Ifs Men Ends Enough Earth Lasts Social Growth Grief Fairs Rate Chosen Cheating Massive Finite Disgrace Progression Social Systems Geometric

Author:Charlie Munger

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