Best grief & common Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.”

“We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?”

Knows Doe Death Evil Common Grief Liberty Enemy Poverty Support Storm Secure Sole Remedy Principal Sovereign Harbors Tempest

Book:Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

Source: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

“After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.”

Humans Soul Pain Suffering Common Grief Wounds Permanent Buried Transcendent Human Suffering Physical Pain

Author:Andre Dubus

“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

“Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)”

“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”

Book:Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“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

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”

Heart Done Pain Hours Common Grief Grace Birth All Things Lists Ashes

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”

Knows Way Humans Said Different Courses Common Grief Color Sorrow Weight Dimensions

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.”

“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”

Men Might Dies Memories Common Grief Secret Emotional Mass Weight Died Longing Terror Gravity Cowardice Embarrassed Tangible Shameful Baggage Emotional Baggage

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

Children Reality Young Grows Parent Common Grief Childhood Terrible Protect Adults Bitter Awful Innocence Vulnerability Rodents

Author:Katherine Dunn

“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

“It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.”

World Spiritual Natural Loss Common Grief Emotion Response Innate Daily Experience

Book:Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart

Source: Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart

“Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.”

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.”

People World Littles Can Do Common Grief Worst Despair Tragedy

Book:The Daughters of Danaus

Source: The Daughters of Danaus

“Good grief. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone’s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call “the lowest common denominator of butthurt.”

Ifs Feelings Spirit Names Left Fun Common Grief Laughing Lowest Malice Common Denominator Lowest Common Denominator Toothless

Author:George Takei

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

People Knows Want Humans Helping Pain Common Grief Behinds Steps Sadness Share Achievement Stranger Human Experience Common Denominator Lack Of Love

Author:Oprah Winfrey

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