“My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.” IfsKnowsYearsBelieveImportantHardMightFoundGriefSadnessPromiseDespairLifetimeTerrorHeavyCompanionRootedPartingEnchantmentLurkingBelieve In Love Author:Bell Hooks
“I do think environmental writers need to be forward thinking, not just lamenting our losses. We do need to lament; in some ways it's important to be the vessels for grief for all that's being lost on our planet. But we also need to be forward thinking.” ThinkingWayNeedsImportantLostLossGriefPlanetsEnvironmentalVesselOur PlanetLamentForward Thinking Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.” IfsMenShouldImportantStatesJoyPassionGriefDoubtPoetRageNo DoubtEtcPoetry IsAmusingDetachedAmusedUtteranceLove PassionByronIrreverent Author:W. H. Auden
“The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated grief" in on the process. You can imagine how tempting it is to try to fight the part of you that loops and loops, caught up in tangled sorrow from which it seems there's no escape.” WritingTryingImportantBookSeemsFightingProcessSidesMy OwnGriefPiecesImagineSorrowAspectCaughtComplicatedCaught UpObsessiveTemptingLoopsTangledComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.” IfsGivingSaidImportantStatesAmericaFacesFormFightingPerfectUnitedGriefUnited StatesReadyConstitutionUnionsWhere You AreRepublicFoundersUnited States Of America Author:Barbara Boxer
“If I didn't write in my journal every couple of days, I felt like I was going to burst. Later I learned the research about how important journaling can be to recovering from trauma and grief. That was definitely true for me.” WritingImportantGriefCoupleTrauma Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere.” ThinkingWritingImportantAgeLossGriefEmotionStruggleEmotionalInsightWitnessNursePersonal LifeLove And Loss Author:Christie Watson
“I think faith is incredible important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.” ThinkingGivingBelieveImportantTurnsI BelieveGriefGraceHappeningsIncrediblesWaveGods WillBelieve In GodOverwhelmed Author:Joel Osteen
“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.” IfsKnowsFeelsImportantDeathLostFeltLossGriefKnow HowImagineHavensTerribleUselessVioletSunnyLost Someone Author:Daniel Handler
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” PeopleKnowsHumansImportantHelpingFeelingsFearGriefCommunicationScaryUpsetOverwhelmingNot AloneManageable Author:Fred Rogers
“Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your inclination to the seven emotions: hate, adoration, joy, anxiety, anger, grief, fear. If you don't give way to the seven, you're patient, then you'll soon understand all manner of things and be in harmony with Eternity.” IfsWayGivingMeanImportantJoyHateNextStrongGriefEmotionAnxietyEternityHarmonySevenPatientKarmaInclinationAdorationHolding BackShoguns Book:SHOGUN Source: SHOGUN
“The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before.” IfsImportantRealDoneRememberFeltHoursMemoriesLossPleasureGriefTakenLosing Book:The Fault in Our Stars Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.” KindImportantShowsDeathPurposeGriefOpinionDyingComfortFuneralDisplayComfortingHeartedLoving YouKind Hearted Book:Modern manners Source: Modern manners
“See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the world. The most important part of the business lies between God and our own souls, in the frame of our spirits and the working of our hearts, in our actions that no eye sees except the all-seeing God. Justly are the saints called God's hidden ones, and His secret is said to be with them. They have meat to eat and work to do that the world does not know of, as well as joys, griefs, and cares that a stranger does not share.” KnowsWorldWellsHeartDoeSaidImportantSoulEyeCareActionChristianJoySpiritLyingGriefSecretSeeingShareSaintStrangerObservationMeatOur ActionsConcealedGood Christian Author:Matthew Henry
“In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most vitally important choices we will ever make, and it determines the course of our lives from that moment forward. The choice is this: Will we interpret this loss as so unjust, unfair, and devastating that we feel punished, angry, forever and fatally wounded-- or, as our heart, torn apart, bleeds its anguish of sheer, wordless grief, will we somehow feel this loss as an opportunity to become more tender, more open, more passionately alive, more grateful for what remains?” FeelsHumansHeartImportantMomentsDeathChoicesCoursesOpportunityLossPowerfulGriefForeverOur LivesAliveBecomingRemainsAngryGratefulDetermineInevitableThat MomentTendernessMentorSheerUnfairWoundedUnjustTornAnguishInterpretingTorn ApartDefining MomentsWorst MomentsYour LossHis LossDealing With DeathBleeding HeartImportant ChoicesPivotal Moments Author:Wayne Muller