Best grief & greater Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.”

“We must have faith during the period of our grief. We think that our afflictions will be greater than we can bear, but we do not know the strength of our own hearts, nor the power of God. He knows all. He knows every folding of the heart and also the extent of the sorrow that he inflicts. What we think will overwhelm us entirely only subdues and conquers our pride. Our renewed spirit rises from its subjugation with a celestial strength and consolation.”

Thinking Knows Heart Spirit Grief Greater Pride Bears Periods Sorrow Conquer Have Faith Affliction Consolation Celestial Power Of God Subjugation Folding

Author:Francois Fenelon

“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”

Sometimes Loses Loss Grief Greater Regret Friends

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.”

Way Loss Grief Greater Comparison

Book:Country Wife and Other Plays

Source: Country Wife and Other Plays

“There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.”

Pain Past Remember Grief Greater Past Happiness

Book:Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

Source: Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

People Thinking Pain Life Is Religious Grief Greater Trouble Mines Comfort Weight Rose Aids Affliction Torment Consolation Martyr Solace

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

World Love Stills Inspiration Hope Grows Dark Love Is Grief Greater Land Fairs Peril Dark Places Fellowship Of The Ring Galadriel

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”

Ifs Knows Way Giving Firsts Heart Said Ends Faces Loss Grief Path Greater Fashion Sorrow Despair Gains Rough Shade Clay Giving Back Vessel Crude Wool

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.”

Past Grief Greater

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“And for yourself, may the gods grant you your heart's desire, a husband and a home, and the blessing of a harmonious life. For nothing is greater or finer than this, when a man and woman live together with one hear and mind, bringing joy to their friends and grief to their foes.”

Men Mind Heart May Home Together Joy Desire Grief Greater Blessing Husband Men And Women Grants Foe Harmonious Bringing Joy

Book:Odyssey

Source: Odyssey

“The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85”

Heart May Helping Pain Universe Grief Compassion Greater Bears Comfort One Day Flow Let Me Embrace Ease Grieving Goddess Open Your Heart Greater Love

Book:The Calling: Book Seven

Source: The Calling: Book Seven

“When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.”

Want Giving Trying Heart Grief Greater Reader Backgrounds Relief Standing Out

Book:Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

Source: Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics

“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”

Men Grief Greater Fate Design Blame Misery Depravity

Book:The Odyssey of Homer

Source: The Odyssey of Homer

“Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother — even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.”

Years Mother Love Is Grief Greater Son Bigger Ugly Saved Grieving Bitterness Unfair Small Things Your Son I Love My Mother

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”

Thinking Said Earth Law Left Grief Gone Greater Fairs Historical Fiction Achilles

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“And I know you've spent a lifetime trying to protect me from the staggering pain of grief that comes from losing the things and the people and the places you allowed yourself to care about--but guess what, Jennika--that's no way to live. As much as it hurts to lose something you love, there's much greater joy in getting to experience it for as long as it lasts.”

People Knows Way Trying Long Care Pain Lasts Joy Loses Hurt Grief Greater Protect Losing Lifetime It Hurts Way To Live Staggering Something You Love

Book:Fated

Source: Fated

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”

Knows Soul Ends Grief Greater Breaths Anguish

Author:Steven Erikson

“No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.”

Life Hands Remember Grief Greater Sorrow Gladness

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often the drinker gets choked before quenching his thirst. The greater the worth of a thing yearned for, the greater is the grief for its loss. Desires blind the eyes of understanding. The destined share would reach him who does not approach it.”

“Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.”

People Way Today Past Remember Memories Grief Greater Too Much Habit Equal Opposites Errors Insight Fallen Repeats Fewer Epigrams Pundits Remembering The Past Misquoting

Author:David Hackett Fischer

“What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.”

Loss Grief Greater Land Native Lost Friendship Lost Friend Native Land

Author:Euripides

“He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs”

Joy Grief Greater

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.”

May Pain Sin Grief Greater Ought Endure Commit Pretence

Book:Letters Concerning the Love of God

Source: Letters Concerning the Love of God

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