Best grief & alive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.”

Grief Break Alive Air Tree Wind Rain Instinct Heavy Storm Flight Fantastic Fallen Length Stillness Bats Unnatural Spooky Crawling Blight Shrubs Foretelling

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!”

Life Eye Past Grief Alive Thousand Dust Live Life Another Day I Am Alive

Author:Don Marquis

“When we're feeling fully alive, we're able to fully feel love. This doorway also relates to feeling our feelings fully. Not suppressing our feelings of anger, sadness or grief but allowing them to be felt. What's amazing is that when those feelings are felt, they actually dissolve into love.”

Feels Feelings Able Felt Grief Alive Sadness Relate Allowing Doorways Suppressing

Author:Marci Shimoff

“When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry is the one thing keeping us alive and present, so what does it mean when one of our ranks chooses to end his or her life? There's an anger beneath the grief, you know? That anger and grief, in turn, breeds other poems from those of us left behind.”

Thinking Knows Mean Doe Ends Dies Turns Left Grief Behinds Alive One Thing Poet Poetry Is Left Behind Affront

Author:Allison Joseph

“Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive." -from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.”

Said Remember Grief Alive Plans Kings Fingers Revenge Titles Ran Instruction Chapters Eragon

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.”

Men Born Grief Alive Fate Brave Coward Greece Brave Man Iliad Fate In The Iliad Rage From The Iliad Achilles Fate

Author:Homer

“We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.”

Feels Chance Simple Grief Alive Promise Ocean Terror Mortality Chance And Change

Book:Tempting Danger

Source: Tempting Danger

“What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.”

Want Firsts Persons Made Stills Remember Felt Forget Grief Alive Tree Return Losing Endure More Time Small Things Wire Embedded Bearable Losing Someone Barbed Wire

Author:Ron Rash

“A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.”

“You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.”

Thinking Persons Stills Past Grief Half Gone Alive One Day Wake Up

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.”

People Giving Stills Dies Fall Waiting Lines Grief Alive Judgment Miracle Remains Grieving

Book:Solo

Source: Solo

“This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.”

May Mean Facts Grief Alive Failing Havens

Book:Levels of Life

Source: Levels of Life

“And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.”

Thinking World Way Years Two Dream Remember Mother Grief Fantasy Gone Alive Changed Fingers Breasts Two Years Thinking About Her

Author:Claire Messud

“Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.”

Men World Firsts Two Book Stories Grief Fiction Clear Alive Return Accounts Witness Non Fiction Eloquent

Author:Nicholas Delbanco

“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?”

“We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by weather, woe, or work can-if we discipline ourselves and think hard enough-be turned to account, be made to yield further insight into what it is to be alive, to be a human being.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Humans Made Hard Enough Human Beings Grief Our Lives Alive Discipline Accounts Insight Myth Weather Yield Woe Inexplicable Seizures

Author:May Sarton

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