Best grief & anguish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”

Men Pain Turns Grief Fire Cures Burning Desperate Anguish Burn Out Giddy Languish

Book:CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.”

Wells May States Pain Suffering Grief Claims Passing Passings Anguish Threshold Baptism Unspeakable Regeneration Initiation

Author:George Eliot

“Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.”

Firsts Littles Love Is Effort Grief Frightened Recalls Anguish Domain Intervals Timidity Callousness Keenness Insensibility

Author:George Eliot

“O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.”

Grief Regret Affection Anguish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.”

May Feelings Loss Grief Regret Sorrow Longing Grieving Tension Emptiness Appetite Anguish Mixtures Exhaustion Deprivation Sleeplessness

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“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

“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.”

“The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.”

Humans Heart Long Hurt Grief Journey Return Dare Human Heart Anguish Being Hurt

Author:Lillian Smith

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”

Form Grief Struggle Produce Quiet Serenity Anguish

Author:Simone Weil

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”

Firsts Together Suffering Loss Grief Our Lives Childhood Return Periods Anguish Early Childhood

Book:A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

Source: A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”

Men Doe Pain Suffering Sides Grief Struggle Blood Tears Particular Creatures Accounts Fellows Wounds Breasts Shed Anguish Another Man Pouring

Book:The Man in the Iron Mask

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

“Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult times. He knows the deepest and most personal burdens we carry. He knows the most public and poignant pains we bear. He descended below al such grief in order that he might lift us above it. There is no anguish or sorrow or sadness in life that he has not suffered in our behalf and borne away upon his own valiant and compassionate shoulders.”

Knows Might Pain Order Difficult Christ Walks Grief Know How Path Sadness Bears Sorrow Burden Shoulders Mortals Lifts Als Compassionate Anguish Behalf Difficult Times Poignant Valiant Lds

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”

Knows Soul Ends Grief Greater Breaths Anguish

Author:Steven Erikson

“Spiritual Love is born of sorrow. . . . For men love one another with spiritual love only when they have suffered the same sorrow together, when through long days they have ploughed the stony ground buried beneath the common yoke of a common grief. It is then that they know one another and feel one another and feel with one another in their common anguish, and so they pity one another and love one another.”

Knows Men Feels Long Soul Together Spiritual Born Love Is Common Grief Sorrow And Love Pity Buried Anguish Love One Another Yoke Spiritual Love Long Day

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.”

Giving Helping Dream Past Reading Lines Memories Sleep Grief Company Break Habit Bed Office Stranger Defense Customs Routine Formal Anguish Sanctuary Old Friends Break Through Immunity

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.”

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach”

Men Grief Half Air Taught Despair Beats Access Loud Hopeless Thrones Anguish Midnight Reproach

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“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?”

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