Best grief & cutting Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”

Grief Silence Cutting Dog Bones Clock Piano Grieving Funeral Telephones Coffins Juicy Those Grieving Death Poems Grief Comfort Comfort The Grieving Grieving Poems Condolences Poems

Author:W. H. Auden

“It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.”

People Way Grief Cutting Tree Spring Working It Old People Withered Withered Tree

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”

Kind Young Universe Grief Grace Cutting Century Tears Please Species Novelists Silver Minors Smooth Widows Suggesting Sentimentality Placid Acacia

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

Source: Fireside Travels

“When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”

“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.”

Thinking Firsts Doe Moving Girl Water White Grief Sun Cutting Praying Lovers Mirrors Legs Holes Naked Grass Bathroom Skirts Ponds Brushing

Author:Louise Glück

“I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic.”

Feels Mind Doe Moments Reality Grief Morning Cutting Worst Sorrow Misery Passionate Links Baths Otherness Worst Moments

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted”

Trying Littles Stills Whole Found Easy Grief Cutting Honest Cry Depth Quitting Pleasant Unnecessary Exaggerating

Author:Richard Yates

“I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”

Humans Littles Long Enough Running Loss Grief Cutting Conditions Cry Mines Weakness Mourning Human Condition

Book:Iris and Ruby: A Novel

Source: Iris and Ruby: A Novel

“Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.”

Want Heart I Can Sometimes Grief Cutting Fingers Smell Senses Noses Swear Joints Hacks Swear To God

Author:Dennis Lehane

“For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.”

Ifs Moments Loss Grief Cutting Rounds Dare Legs Circles Repeats Emptiness Phases Novelty Emerging Spirals Grief Observed Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't think-I don't think I had felt anything for a long time before that, but those emotions at least were familiar to me. Love I am not familiar with. I didn't recognize that feeling until I thought I had lost you in Ephrata. And when I thought I was losing you a second time, I realized I would give up anything to keep you-my lip service to other gods, but my pride, too, and my rage at all gods, everything for you.”

Thinking Giving Long Has Beens Feelings Hands Pain Lost Felt Grief Emotion Cutting Pride Giving Up Long Time Losing Lips Rage I Realized Familiar Service To Others Lost You Lip Service

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

Heart Lying Song Simple Grief Cutting Sea Dog Wind Broken Bird Blow Wounds Tiny Rings Holes Bells Salt Cracked Clutch Stray Dogs

Author:Michael Leunig

“Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.”

Needs Humans Heart Made Wisdom Eye Spiritual Voice Grief Clear Cutting Missing Divine My Heart Seasons Surrender Tonight Ingredients

Author:Hafez

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