Best grief & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising. But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’ What else? It's brilliantly instead and odd.”

Giving Mind Littles Book Wish Walks Grief Half Tree Sadness Moon Speech Ordinary Shadow Bills Neighbor Curious Odd Surprising Wet Ordinary Life Telescopes Microscopes Twigs

Author:Marianne Boruch

“While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.”

Soul Eye Lying Night Grief Half Bird Sight Rounds My Soul Shade Mirth

Book:The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals

Source: The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals

“in coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?”

Long Stills Seems Spirit Mother Father Term Loss Grief Half Century Deny Graves Buried Mourn Stirring Half A Century

Author:Eileen Simpson

“Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.”

Firsts Causes Fear Grief Half Enemy Victory Shapes Torment

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.”

Inspirational Joy Friendship Grief Half

Author:Francis Bacon

“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”

Feels Heart Soul Sometimes Use Pain Lying Language Given Sin Grief Brain Half Cold Exercise Clothes Dull Weed Mechanic Wraps Outlines Narcotics Numbing Heart And Brain

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”

Knows Eye Lasts Grief Half Know How Century Dying Tears Sorrow Breaths Grateful Finals Despite God Knows Luminous I Loved You Cholera Half A Century Only God Knows

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping it wasn't true. Have you any idea of the implications?' 'He was mistreating it!' Pyrgus protested. 'Of course he was mistreating it. This is Black Hairstreak we're talking about. He mistreats his own mother. I don't suppose you stole her as well?”

Wells Ideas Eye Mother Courses Black Grief Half Talking Caught Stealing Golden His Eyes Implications Phoenix Mistreat

Author:Herbie Brennan

“I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.”

Life Feels Soul Sometimes Sin Grief Half

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings”

Feels Firsts Doe Hours Grief Half Broken Heal Scar

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire." I lowered Grief until it pointed straight at Rudy's crotch. "You two wouldn't recognize the Internet if a server fell on your heads. So give it to me straight this time, Rudy, before I lose my temper and make sure Junior grows up an only child.”

Ifs Giving Children Two Grows Loses Grief Half Growing Up Internet Vampire Temper Cash Juniors Other Half Only Child Server Rudy

Book:Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series

Source: Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series

“The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.”

Littles Body Lasts Spirit Grief Half Mountain Importance Finals Buried Stillness Shells Slipping Mountain Top

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.”

Thinking Persons Stills Past Grief Half Gone Alive One Day Wake Up

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.”

Source: The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed

“His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should be a boy for the sixth part of his life; when a twelfth was added, his cheeks acquired a beard; He kindled for him the light of marriage after a seventh, and in the fifth year after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas! late-begotten and miserable child, when he had reached the measure of half his father's life, the chill grave took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years, he reached the end of his life.”

Life Should Years Children Ends Light Father Numbers Grief Half Boys Four Son Late Graves Granted Miserable Four Years Cheeks Alas Chill Fifth Beard Tombs Epitaph Consoling

Author:Diophantus

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach”

Men Grief Half Air Taught Despair Beats Access Loud Hopeless Thrones Anguish Midnight Reproach

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

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