Best grief & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Kind Moving Certain Grief Scared Distress

Author:James Nachtwey

“Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.”

Ifs Way Needs Doe Lasts Past Remember Grief Quality Support Honor Sorrow Healthy Meaningful Grieving Our Love Misconception Truth Love Remembering The Past Testimonial

Author:Judy Tatelbaum

“Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal.”

Needs Order Grief Attention Wounds Heal

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.”

Men Needs Running Grief

Book:Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)

Source: Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)

“We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.”

Ifs Way Needs Hands Might Past Grief Accepting Impossible Stage Embrace Acceptable Way To Live Clinging Finality Embrace Life Stages Of Grief

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.”

Needs Three Memories Perfect Grief One Thing Remains Cups

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.”

Ifs Needs Mind Soul Body Grief Your Body Drunk Your Soul Relief Purses

Book:Lapsus Calami and Other Verses

Source: Lapsus Calami and Other Verses

“You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?”

Want Needs Feels Grief Like You Kings Taste Bread Live By Call Me Friend In Need

Author:William Shakespeare

“Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.”

People Needs Persons Grief Essentials Shining Sincere Grandeur Luster

Author:Honore de Balzac

“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”

“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”

Men Needs Force Loss Grief Fire Objects Circumstances Tests Absolutes Endure Absence Separation Beloved Indifference Crucible Grief Loss

Book:Max

Source: Max

“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.”

Men Needs Doe Real Suffering Grief

Author:Jose Marti

“The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'”

“... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.”

Way Want Needs Soul Prayer Grief Cry Eating Tired Crave Tangible Whips Nourishment Steak

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“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.”

Thinking Way Needs Important Lost Loss Grief Planets Environmental Vessel Our Planet Lament Forward Thinking

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.”

People Needs Grief Cases Middle Treated

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends. He shared moments of joy and grief with them, and asked for them in times of need. They became his family, his substitute mother and brothers and sisters. They gave up everything for him, as he had given up everything for them. He loved them, plain and simple.”

“Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices”

Ifs Way Needs Self Choices Answers Grief Poverty Ignorance Keys Shame Obvious Unhappy Pity Better Ways Self Pity Wallowing

Author:Og Mandino

“Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Long Doe Has Beens Lying Dies Courses Chance Grief Forever Impossible Loved Ones Rest Of Your Life

Author:John Green

“Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole.”

Needs States Grief Clubs Flags Florida Need A Change Brass

Author:Wanda Sykes

“We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.”

Ifs Needs Care America Given Grief Struggle Seeing Promise Quiet Remains Terrorism Take Care Turkeys Own Business

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine "identity" in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.”

Needs Light Grief Influence Identity Complicated Protection Usual Dense Interdependence Acknowledgement Entanglement Citations Hybridity Complicated Grief

Author:Laura Mullen

“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.”

Needs Art Enough Form Powerful Grief Emotional Engagement Refreshments Precursor

Author:Catherine Wilson

“I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.”

People Thinking Way Needs Trying Book Used Process Grief Written Subjects Huge One Way Odd Grieving Over It Maps Ritual Spatial

Author:John Darnielle

“I'm working on forgiving myself for some not-so-hot choices I've made in my life. I neglected two people I loved dearly. They are both dead now and I obviously can do nothing to repair or change that, and I grieve every day for those choices. That grief can be paralyzing, but it has made me understand the pain of holding on to unfinished business. In my case, I had put work first. I will never do that again. Having made that choice, I find the grief in my heart finally abating. Now I teach the need to forgive yourself and others relentlessly.”

People Needs Firsts Heart Made Two Pain Choices Can Do Grief Teach Cases My Heart Hot Forgiving Grieving Holding On Neglected Unfinished Forgive Yourself Unfinished Business

Author:Caroline Myss

“When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom.”

Needs Heart Children Grief Tears Angel Flow Punishment Repentance Correcting Chastisement

Author:Horace Mann

“I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.”

Needs Wells Children Stills Today Suffering Grief Journey Events Goes On Sorrow Overcoming Your Children Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren Culmination Incremental Change

Author:Kathleen Battle

“Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.”

People Needs Grief Discussion Sentiments Sympathy Frank Reserved

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?”

Thinking Needs Sometimes Joy Speak Heaven Pleasure Grief Too Much Comfort Messages Music Is Hunger Satisfaction Refuse Transient Ungrateful Taste In Music Music Speaks

Author:Orson Scott Card

“He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

Ifs Knows Needs Heart Doe Helping Certain Sleep Grief Bears Sorrow Thee Faithful Foe Flattering Faithful Friends

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Spiritual Desire Grief Sky Perfection Difficulty Blue Plant Workers Seeds Flying Being Human Hoe

Author:Rumi

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

Men Needs Suffering Grief Courage Tears Witness Ashamed Bores Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Life Altering

Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.”

People Needs Humans Mean Has Beens Country Enough Happens Human Beings Grief Cities Happened Land Son Terrible Bunch Tragic Cows Agony Crucible Jericho Trough

Book:Set this House on Fire

Source: Set this House on Fire

“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.”

Needs Littles Might Pain Beautiful Values Turns Grief Building Appreciation Dialogue Acquire Unusual Beautiful Things Requirements Acquaintance Prerequisites

Book:The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.”

“Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it...You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief... But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.You know what pain is. You know what love is. "All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.”

Knows Way Needs Mean Moments Able Pain Love Is Grief Emotion Contrary Allowing Throwing Penetrate Detachment

Author:Mitch Albom

“Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room for response, so I simply hold her and stroke her hair. She talks of the pain, grief, and horror of the past four years; of learning to cope with being the wife of a man so violent and unpredictable his touch made her skin crawl and of thinking, until quite recently, that she'd finally managed to do that. And then, finally, of how my appearance had forced her to realize she hadn't learned to cope at all.”

Thinking Men Needs Years Made Pain Past Lying Fall Speak Realizing Rooms Grief Silence Darkness Four Wife Hair Horror Skins Response Appearance Violent Four Years Strokes Unpredictable Curls

Author:Sara Gruen

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”

Needs Firsts Mean Said Eye Lost Loses Sin Grief Steps Illusion Absence Supposed To Be Innocence First Steps Subordination Lestat Vampire Lestat

Author:Anne Rice

“Maybe I’m just tired. (Geary) People only say that when they’re not really willing to deal with the issue at hand. It’s like when you ask a guy what he’s thinking and he says ‘nothing’ but in reality you know he’s checking out another woman and he doesn’t want you to give him grief over it. It’s Thia’s theory. (Tory) I think you need to stay away from her before she corrupts you. (Geary) Nah, it’s too much fun. She has the most misguided views on everything. But I think what I just said is one of the few lucid thoughts she’s ever managed. (Tory)”

People Thinking Knows Want Needs Giving Said Hands Reality Guy Asks Fun Views Deals Grief Issues Too Much Willing Theory Tired Over It Misguided Another Woman Checking Out Too Much Fun

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.”

Needs Ends Faces Joy Girl Courses Names Grief Boys Doubt Tears Regret Deeds Lust Scorn I Regret Fear Not

Book:Watt

Source: Watt

“Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have to re-learn,to remember how to love,and everyone,without exception,needs o burn on the bonfire of past emotions,to relieve certain joys and griefs,certain ups and downs,until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter;because there is a connecting thread.”

“It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.”

Needs Moving Grief Listening Sorry Moving Forward

Book:The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)

Source: The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)

“Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.”

Needs Children Littles Sound Simple Grief Sight Down And Clean Blow Remembered Dull Climbs Scent Mud Ache Hammers Faded Little Sister Fetch

Book:The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)

Source: The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)

“Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Helping Eye Pain Moving Suffering Culture Waiting Loss Grief Morning Bears Letting Go Disease Burden Witness Mourning Cheer Live Well Cheer Up Being Sad Avert

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this, it feels as if you're denying any value at all that our lives may have--and that saps the spirit we need to soldier on. The hardest ordeal for us is the idea that we are causing grief for other people. We can put up with our own hardships okay, but the thought that our lives are the source of other people's unhappiness, that's plain unbearable.”

People Ifs Needs Feels May Ideas Spirit Values Asks Grief Our Lives Source Okay Stress Soldier Hardest Unhappiness Hardship Unbearable Sap Ordeals

Author:Naoki Higashida

“There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.”

Knows Needs Has Beens Three Loss Grief Heard Grieving Grievers

Author:Victoria Alexander

“He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.”

Ifs Needs Heart Helping Sleep Grief Bears Sorrow Thee Best Friend

Author:Richard Barnfield

“Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard.... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Humans Moments Speak Grief Steps Heard Suicide Oneself Spheres First Steps Unspeakable

Author:Victoria Alexander

“Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.”

Needs Humans Heart Made Wisdom Eye Spiritual Voice Grief Clear Cutting Missing Divine My Heart Seasons Surrender Tonight Ingredients

Author:Hafez

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