Best grief & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.”

Looks Joy Desire Fall Passion Names Grows Grief Influence Bears Staring Blank Toes Exceed Numb

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)

“How many mysteries have you seen in your lifetime? How many nets pulled full over the boat's side, each silver body ready or not falling into submission? How many roses in early summer uncurling above the pale sands then falling back in unfathomable willingness? And what can you say? Glory to the rose and the leaf, to the seed, to the silver fish. Glory to time and the wild fields, and to joy. And to grief's shock and torpor, its near swoon.”

Body Joy Fall Sides Grief Mystery Fields Ready Summer Glory Rose Lifetime Fishes Seeds Boat Shock Sand Silver Willingness Pale Leafs Submission Unfathomable

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!”

Firsts Heart Faces Fall Grief Silent Faded Flakes

Book:Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

“In rising sighs and falling tears.”

Fall Grief Tears Rising Sigh

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.”

Fall Grief Rain Silent Calm Snow Bitter Loud

Book:On the Heights

Source: On the Heights

“In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

Heart Art Care Dies Fall Grief Music Sweet Comfort Musician Music Is Killing Hearing Orpheus Sweet Music Hearing Music

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.”

Looks Heart Eye Life Is Fall Jesus Left Grief Too Much Tears Mines My Heart Stones Wit Hills Lifts Leafs Everlasting Numb Falling Leaves

Author:Christina Rossetti

“There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race, gender, and so forth - until you eliminate "withdrawal" and "attack" and replace them with "acceptance" and "help." Once you do that and not just talk about it, these other issues will fall into place quickly. They will not fall into place at all unless it is done this way.”

Way Done Helping Fall Culture Fighting Social Grief Race Issues Acceptance Battle Gender Cures Withdrawal Fall Into Place

Author:Dallas Willard

“[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.”

“There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Mean Children Joy Fall Names Language Parent Grief Wonder Happened Birth Findings Falling In Love Finding God Birth Of A Child

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

People Care Used Fall Grief Trouble Evolution Victory Lessons Cost Thousand Soldier Communism Chinese Flats Efficient Bugs Alliances Chins Adapted Hegemony Ammo

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

Thinking Men Needs Years Made Pain Past Lying Fall Speak Realizing Rooms Grief Silence Darkness Four Wife Hair Horror Skins Response Appearance Violent Four Years Strokes Unpredictable Curls

Author:Sara Gruen

“Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.”

Knows Soul Purpose Fall Grief Struggle Activity Intellectual Seeds Worldly Serene Supremacy Absorbing Annoyance Intellectual Life

Author:George Eliot

“To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.”

Giving Long Remember Night Fall Walks Grief Falling In Love Drunk Plenty Awake Indulge Gamble Long Walks

Author:Philip Pullman

“Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.”

Ifs Years Heart Book Dream Lying Fall Next Understanding Pleasure Grief Silence Divine Tasks Favors Settling Portions Living Things Vow Settling Down Residence Quiver Vow Of Silence

Author:Pat Conroy

“Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she should have never left me here, where her friends might look to me for help. Finally she looked at me. Her eyes were hard, but she'd let no tears fall. "This is where we blame those who are responsible, Cooper, she told me, her voice very soft. "The colemongers, and the bought Dogs at Tradesmen's kennel. We'll leave an offering for him with the Black God when all this is done, and we'll occupy ourselves with tearing these colemongers apart. all right? We put grief aside for now.”

Should Looks Stills Hard Done Helping Hands Might Eye Fall Left Waiting Black Voice Grief Dog Tears Should Have Responsible Blame Offering Dread Her Eyes Fists

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!”

Feels Kind Children Mother Fall Father Grief Share Tears Sorrow Filled Relief Woe Infant

Author:William Blake

“I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.”

Want Feels Made Remember Used Fall Felt Loss Grief Ache

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.”

Ifs Heart Fall Loss Grief Wall Cold Barriers Too Deep Cold Heart

Book:The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

“He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.”

Thinking Giving Heart May Ideas Might Dies Fall Father Grief Wife Masters Daughter Stones Flesh Rhythm Breathing Rising Spite Thrive Sigh Pulse Cardinals Heart Of Stone

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

“Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.”

Ifs Wells Desire Fall Found Felt Peace Perfect Grief All Things Thyself Adversaries True Peace

Book:The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ

Source: The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ

“No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.”

Matter Life Is Fall Loss Grief Air Broken Exposed Falling Apart Embers

Author:Charles Eisenstein

“You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to grieve for them; you'll give them their grief while they are still alive, for then judgment falls away, and there remains only the miracle of being.”

People Giving Stills Dies Fall Waiting Lines Grief Alive Judgment Miracle Remains Grieving

Book:Solo

Source: Solo

“The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.”

Life Stills Joy Fall Grief Green Someday Leafs

Author:T.A. Barron

“Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's not the problem When I'm falling I'm in peace It's only when I hit the ground It causes all the grief”

Giving Sometimes Problem Fall Wish Causes Grief Air Give Me Release Relief

Author:Florence Welch

“Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.”

Giving Earth Fall Universe Grief Taught Ought Draws Horse Lays Immortal Hostage Chariots

Book:The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic

“There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.”

Persons Fall Grief

Author:Wasif Ali Wasif

“Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.”

Giving Trying Hard Feelings Faces Fall Strong Loss Grief Teach Darkness Knowing Sadness Wind Cold Depth Blow Storm Firm Heartache Stand Firm Feeling Sad Storms Of Life

Author:Joseph M. Marshall III

“The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.”

Littles Care Fall Loss Grief Kindness Security Sorrow Safe Busy Soldier Employment Leisure Spares Idleness Antidote Lamentation Seamen

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

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

“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”

Thinking Long Seems Pain Remember Order Fall Loses Sleep Grief Tree Letting Go Roots Seasons Riches Psychics Renewal Let It Go

Author:May Sarton

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