“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
“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” GriefCryDepthGrievingMourningBreakupBroken HeartGrief And LossCriedRemembranceWeepingGriefingGrief LossGrief And MourningInspirational MourningMourning LossTears And CryingGrieving A LossTears Of SorrowCry Tears Author:William Shakespeare
“And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” MenWellsLooksChildrenMotherJesusWomenGriefHeardArmsBearsSlaveryAfrican AmericanBlack PeopleCriedStrong WomenLook At MeBlack WomenBlack HistoryThirteenLashesBarnsWomen StrengthPloughingWhiplashMud Puddles Author:Sojourner Truth
“Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.” Has BeensGriefCompanyTearsStrangePraiseBlindBurdenGravesRememberedGrievingMourningCriedGood DayLament Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.” FeelsShouldStoriesDreamLightDeathJoyGriefLandDyingCryYouthSorrowDiseaseEternalAnd LoveIndiaHearingBonesBreatheHeartacheInsultCriedSoarShatteringEvermoreLight And LoveEternal Light Author:Paramahansa Yogananda
“It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?” MenCultureBitsGriefCryTearsSorrowDrawsLipsDisappointmentAshamedCriedShedCrapBeardVikingsNorwegiansStiff Upper Lip Author:Philip Jose Farmer
“I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.” WayNeedsMayPersonsUsedGriefSadnessCryListeningI RealizedPassingPassingsCriedAnother WayFind MeOld DaysJust ListenTissues Book:Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
“And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?” ChildrenMotherJesusGriefHeardSlaveryCriedThirteenMud Puddles Author:Sojourner Truth