Best grief & house Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping”

House Sleep Grief Doors Air Blow Disappear Rings Bells

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“This is a racist and imperialist war. The warmongers who stole the White House have hijacked a nation's grief and turned it into a perpetual war on any non-white country they choose to describe as terrorist.”

War Country House Nations White Grief Terrorist Racist White House Perpetual Warmongers Perpetual War

Author:Woody Harrelson

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]”

Ifs House Grief Folly

Author:George Herbert

“In the history of thought and culture the dark nights have perhaps in some ways cost mankind less grief than the false dawns, the prison houses in which hope persists less grief than the promised lands where hope expires.”

Way Night Culture House Dark Grief Land Mankind Cost Prison Dawn Persist Dark Night Promised Land

Book:A Mania for Magnificence

Source: A Mania for Magnificence

“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

Feels Firsts I Can Body Running Young Certain House Grief Forever Taken Dying Poet Judgment Delight Lovely Back And Forth Down The Road Pints Running Back

Author:J. D. Salinger

“The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity”

Want Heart Use Earth House Grief Morning Industry Eternity After Death Sweeping Bustle Morning After

Author:Emily Dickinson

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows and no gaunt silhouettes. It was invincibly cheerful, a toyland of white and pastel houses whose bright, uncurtained windows winked blandly through a dappling of green and yellow leaves … A man running down these streets in desperate grief was indecently out of place.”

“It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.”

Men Giving Children Enough Lasts Night House Walks Grief Cold Bed Winter Harm Hungry Innocence Your Children Heartache Spares Blanket Sunny Hallways Sunny Day

Author:Betty Smith

“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”

Men House Rooms Grief Cry Capable Lows Gains Harmony Rage Tiny Scales This Life Modest Lamps Harmonious Howl Endearing

Book:The waiting years

Source: The waiting years

“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

House Grows Sleep Grief Doors Air Wall Protect Mirrors Forgotten Blow Disappear Rings Chairs Bells Protect You Younger Sister

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.”

Knows Whole House Walks Rooms Grief Wind Lonely Structure Scary Architecture Emptiness Sorrowful Rambling Walk With Me

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.”

Kind Seems House Grief Too Much Sorrow Blessing Dear Obvious Trials Bitter Disguise Blessings In Disguise

Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.”

Ifs Ends Home Bigs Happens Mother Father House Felt Rooms Grief Week Cry Band Rounds Aids Curious Clock Exception Coming Home Layers Household Ripped Headphones Band Aid

Book:My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel

“And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.”

Men Way Father House Memories Grief Feet Rose Killing Achilles Sobbing Iliad Patroclus Hector Priam

Author:Homer

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”

Source: A Grief Observed

“There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”

House Grief Muse Pizza Paganism

Author:Sappho

“Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.”

House Loss Grief Painful Absence Enormous Your Presence Your Absence

Author:Donald Hall

“I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.”

Book Might Pain Lying House Easy Bits Hours Grief Grace Sorrow Comfortable Library Ministers Affliction Furniture Pennies Happy Hour

Book:We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven

Source: We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven

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