Best grief & anxiety Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.”

Source: The Yearling

“Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]”

Friendship Grief Anxiety Adversity Prosperity Brighter

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.”

Men Dies Grief Anxiety Constant Battlefields

Author:Bill Vaughan

“under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.”

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Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.”

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Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

Real Form Joy Grief One Day Anxiety Hundred Clouds Sunshine Real Joy

Book:Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

“I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.”

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Author:Charles M. Schulz

“Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.”

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Book:SHOGUN

Source: SHOGUN

“We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm.”

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Book:Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

Source: Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”

“Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.”

Stills Care Suffering Grief Anxiety Useless Stunned Swollen

Author:Leonard Cohen

“There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Doe War Joy Hate Grief Emotion Anxiety Seven Patient Adoration Shoguns

Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

Causes Grief Worry Greatness Anxiety

Book:The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

Source: The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version

“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.”

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Author:Ieyasu Tokugawa

“After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.”

Grief Worry Anxiety Fishing Catching Wipe

Author:Gladys Taber

“In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was a deep well of loneliness I hadn't known was there. ... Anxiety was my fuel. When I stopped, it was all waiting for me: fear, anger, grief, despair, and that terrible, terrible loneliness. What was it about? I was hardly alone. I loved my husband and son. I had great friends, colleagues, students. In the quiet, in the extra hours, I was forced to ask the question, and to listen carefully to the answer: I was lonely for myself. [p. 123]”

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Author:Dani Shapiro

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