Best grief & play Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume

“There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.”

Men Doe Play Feelings Grief Music Extremes Relief

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.”

May Play Grief Lips Length Indulgence Sacrilege

Book:Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

“All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy - and that is as well, for one could not bear it - whose grief is that the principals never met.”

Wells Has Beens Play Deals Grief Fate Bears Sorrow Mets Tragedy Meetings Triumph Rejoice Principal Strokes

Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“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?”

“In Advance of All Parting is a tough, unsentimental examination of marital grief. Musically elegant and inventive, understated and passionate, the poems give us a profound glimpse into how the events of a life can form a center of gravity that fixes the self in its force field. Theres a cold, truth-telling clarity about them that makes them as unsettling as they are beautiful. Ansie Baird has created a richly-drawn world in which this elemental drama plays out, and the result is vivid, startling poems in which pain has left its indelible tracks.”

“Congratulations to all the members of the wonderful Treorchy Male Choir past and present. In moments of grief or joy, the sound of the Choir can move and uplift and restore spirits like no other sound. Masters of their craft, each and every singer plays a vital role in helping maintain such a fantastic musical tradition. Long may the Choir prosper and continue to the delight of audiences around the world.”

“'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.”

Men Play Grief

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or two the scar tissue separates and the wound is raw again.”

Long Play Moments Grief Car Losing Come Up Accepted Wounds Tissues Someone You Love Losing Someone Tow

Author:Mary Higgins Clark

“I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”

Knows Men Play Shows Seems Might Eye Action Together Form Mother Black Grief Shapes Rivers Breaths Mood Suits Woe Not Alone Solemn Cloaks Windy Good Mother Dejected

Author:William Shakespeare

“I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice.”

World Way Years Persons Play Mother Grief Known Gone Angry Complicated Tricks Grieving Fractions

Author:Veronica Roth

“I've just discovered the secret of golf. You can't play a really hot game unless you're so miserable that you don't worry over your shots. Take the case of a chip shot, for instance. If you're really wretched, you don't care where the ball is going and so you don't raise your head to see. Grief automatically prevents pressing and over-swinging. Look at the top-notchers. Have you ever seen a happy pro?”

Ifs Looks Play Care Games Grief Secret Cases Worry Shots Balls Hot Raises Golf Don't Care Instance Miserable Over You Chips Wretched

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.”

Feels Play Mother Desire Energy Grief Good Things Deeper Stranger Surprising Tenderness Sweetness Sibling Walkers My Siblings Visitation Foreseen Deeper Love

Book:The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

“Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.”

“All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.”

Play Joy Grief Worst Pride Jest Pageant Grief And Hope

Book:The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

Source: The Complete English Works of Thomas Campion

“Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.”

Ends Play Pain Suffering Individual Causes Grief Stage Sorrow Perceive Duality Pain And Suffering

Author:Anandamayi Ma

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