Best grief & flower Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume

“Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.”

Littles Pain Joy Grief Flower Gains Welcome Crowns Leafs Gladness

Author:Dan Simmons

“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

“In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay

“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Heart Dark Poor Grief Flower Sorrow Spring Graves Graveyard

Book:Infelicia [poems].

Source: Infelicia [poems].

“I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.”

Knows Art Night Names Grief Darkness Divine Strange Flower Pure Mountain Rain Deception Flames Rays Magnificent Herbs

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.”

Thinking Firsts Littles Walks Grief Attention Flower Losing Doctors Legs Cards Shock Nurse Loved Ones Sooner Or Later Losing A Loved One Anesthetics Painkillers Doctors And Nurses

Author:Ruth Graham

“Think of your child, then, not as dead, but as living; not as a flower that has withered, but as one that is transplanted, and touched by a Divine hand, is blooming in richer colors and sweeter shades than those of earth.”

Thinking Children Hands Earth Parent Loss Grief Divine Color Flower Our Children Your Children Touched Shade Think Of You Blooming Withered Parent Child Loss Of A Parent

Author:Richard Hooker

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.”

Years Firsts Parent Grief Risk Willing Flower Sad Things Hotter Going For It

Author:Mike Mills

“We will enjoy ourselves with the forms that are given us: a human face, a hand, the breast of a woman or the body of a man, a glad or sorrowful expression, the infinite seas, the wild rocks, the melancholy language of the black trees in the snow, the wild strength of spring flowers and the heavy lethargy of a hot summer day when Pan, our old friend, sleeps and the ghosts of midday whisper. This alone is enough to make us forget the grief of the world, or to give it form.”

“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”

Source: Robert Frost's New England

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

Source: Taggerung

“For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.”

Grief Color Flower Gold Wine Leafs Lifeless

Book:Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

Source: Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”

Writing Stories Grief Achieve Taught Flower Limits Survival Garden Fingers Gardening Exhaustion Writing Stories

Author:Eudora Welty

“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

Ifs Should Heart Soul Body Answers Grief Dying Flower Remains Seeds Grieving Mourning Sympathy Death Of A Loved One Remembrance Bereavement Memorial Mourn Condolences My Sympathy Loss Of A Loved One Inspirational Death Words Of Sympathy Sympathy Condolences Death Grief Sympathy For Loss Death Comfort Grief And Mourning Condolences And Sympathy Death Sympathy Grieving A Death Loss Loved One Inspirational Condolence Message Sympathy Card Death Condolences Words Of Condolence Inspirational Condolences Inspirational Sympathy Sympathy Messages Inspirational Mourning Mourning Loss Loved One Funeral Condolences Funeral Sympathy My Condolences Death Remembrance Loved One Dying Death Memorial Grieving Poems Inspirational Bereavement Mourning Loss Comfort Loss Famous Condolence Death And Mourning Grieving Inspirational Inspirational Grieving Condolences Poems Death Mourning Mourning A Loss Mourning Death

Author:Khalil Gibran

“My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!”

Grief Gone Sadness Mines Flower Sad Fruit Yellow Leafs Worms Yellow Leaves

Author:Lord Byron

“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.”

“Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death.”

Men Life Years Hands Light Pain Night Heaven Pleasure Grief Hell Tears Flower Summer Shadow Madness Breaths Endure Glasses Ran Fallen Remembrance Risen Shadow Of Death

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.”

Two War Moments Pain Life Is Joy Pleasure Grief Flower Rose Honey Bees Nevertheless Gathering Cleverness Intervals Diligent Pain And Pleasure Mosaics

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.”

Thinking Body Mother Wish Grief Flower Fairs Ugly Your Body Graves Familiar My Future Wrong Things Cemetery Not Fair

Author:Karen Russell

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