Best grief & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the transfiguration of suffering into endurance, and of endurance into character, and of character into hope--and the hope that has become our joy does not (as happiness must for those who depend up on it) disappoint us.”

Source: Measuring the days: daily reflections with Walter Wangerin, Jr

“Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.”

Character Joy Grief Humane

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.”

Men Character Joy Interest Grief Prosperity Indifferent Joy And Grief

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it "intently political." I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.”

People Knows World Writing Matter Character Political Language Voice Grief No Matter What Structure Surprise Wounds Theme Surprise Me

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The very dull truth is that writing love scenes is the same as writing other scenes - your job is to be fully engaged in the character's experience. What does this mean to them? How are they changed by it, or not? I remember being a little nervous, as I am when writing any high-stakes, intense scene (death, sex, grief, joy).”

Writing Mean Littles Doe Character Jobs Remember Joy Sex Grief Changed Truth Is Scene Intense Nervous Engaged Dull Stakes Writing Love

Author:Madeline Miller

“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

“Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.”

Sometimes Character Grief Scolding

Author:Clark Gregg

“We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.”

“I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw her as a girl who's grief-stricken and she just doesn't have the tools to cope. Grief and heartbreak, it makes you do some pretty crazy things.”

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Author:Bella Heathcote

“I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.”

Thinking Character Grief Tragedy

Author:Dan Chaon

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.”

Ifs Men Enough Character Pain Humanity Evil Literature Common Grief Virtue Conditions Subjects Honesty Integrity Sorrow Treatment Calamity Aggravation Pain And Sorrow Aggravating

Book:The Spectator, no. 1-314

Source: The Spectator, no. 1-314

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

“We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness”

Knows Character Light Grief Sun Our Lives Perfection Guilt Individuality Corruption Accidents Graves Dirty Identical Bruises Sameness Lapses

Book:A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

Source: A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

“Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father, sister, and mother, were gained, and lost, in that one moment. Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

Long Moments Character Pain Joy Mother Father Lost Pleasure Grief Tears Sweet Broken Sacred Embrace Bitter Cups Solemn Recollection Orphan Sisters And Mothers Joy And Grief

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.”

“When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. ... The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make.”

Want Giving Feels Trying Kind Character Stories Seems Grief Kindness Cry Cold Reader Stronger Backgrounds Impression Objectives Pity Crafts Miserable Unfortunate Standing Out Sigh

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.”

Real Character Pain Humanity Energy Loss Grief Honest Losing Flawed Catharsis Losing Someone

Author:Peter Orner

“An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.”

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