“Grief is just so scary.... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.” IfsFeelingsParentRoomsGriefCryTearsHugeRiversMy FamilyAngryScaryDinnerCriedMississippiMississippi River Author:Anne Lamott
“One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.” FeelsRealityMightWould BeCommunityJusticeGriefSupportMurderVictimAngryGuiltCriminalsAshamedFearfulIsolatedOverwhelmedOld FriendsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemMurder Victims Author:Eric Schlosser
“It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the purpose of these eyes, this impossible face, the softness and the curves of this body, the strength of this mind; what was the point, if none of the men who desired her were to give her any babies, and all it ever brought her was grief? What was the purpose of a woman monster?” IfsMenGivingMindMadeDoneBodyEyeFacesPurposeGriefFireViolenceImpossibleBabyCreatingAngryMedicineMonstersCurvesSoftnessThese Eyes Book:Fire Source: Fire
“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?” IfsWayHumansArtDesireLostHuman BeingsGriefBehindsExistenceElementsArt IsAngryLove LifeDesire Love Author:Adrienne Rich
“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.” IfsDoneHelpingPainGriefKnowingMetsOne DayConsciousAngryUpsetGood LifeBetter LifeReally Good Life Book:Me Before You: A Novel Source: Me Before You: A Novel
“I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.” WorldWayYearsPersonsPlayMotherGriefKnownGoneAngryComplicatedTricksGrievingFractions Author:Veronica Roth
“Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.” IfsInspirationalBelieveMotivationalJoyGriefAcceptanceAngrySubmitBelieve In MeDeceivingDon't Be Sad Author:Alexander Pushkin
“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?” FeelsHumansHeartImportantMomentsDeathChoicesCoursesOpportunityLossPowerfulGriefForeverOur LivesAliveBecomingRemainsAngryGratefulDetermineInevitableThat MomentTendernessMentorSheerUnfairWoundedUnjustTornAnguishInterpretingTorn ApartDefining MomentsWorst MomentsYour LossHis LossDealing With DeathBleeding HeartImportant ChoicesPivotal Moments Author:Wayne Muller
“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.” IfsThinkingFeelsKindMayChildrenLongHardYoungMotherFatherGriefReturnUltimateDiedAngryInnocentRomantic LoveUnrequited LoveLove SomeoneUnrequitedYoung ChildrenAbusiveKinds Of LoveMother LoveAbusive Father Author:Rosamund Lupton