Best grief & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through; then there is reason for doing it.”

Feels Littles I Can Reason Feelings Understanding My Own Grief Wonder Particular Justify

Book:Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

“The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.”

Feels Should Believe Reason Death Grief

Author:Esther Hicks

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.”

Giving Heart Reason Grief Cases Wounded Consolation Seclusion Wounded Heart

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.”

Thinking I Can Reason Today Moving Belief Grief Gone Risk Minutes Tomorrow Right Now Glory Mysterious Tides Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.”

Men Want Reason Animal Grief Virtue Foolish Irrational Consolation Insensibility

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”

Men Reason Eye Running Suffering Evil Wish Chance Grief Serious Fingers Affliction Irritation

Author:Plutarch

“Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.”

Giving Heart Children Reason Grief Fire Arms Bears Blame No Reason

Book:The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

Source: The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”

World Reason Grief Figures Sorrow Taste Fairs Size Vain Proportion Tolerate Affliction Ridicule Limbs Not Fair Conjunctions Unbecoming

Book:Persuasion - Jane Austen

Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen

“Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.”

Soul Reason Grief Sorrow Vices Flesh Repentance Begets Ulcers

Book:The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

Source: The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy

“I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.”

Long Book Reason Use Body Hands Moving Left Grief Position Goes On Bed Long Time Sitting Weight Lays Dinner Finished Breathe Bother No Reason Cheeks Bent Sigh Slides Pillow Why Bother

Author:Marya Hornbacher

“But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it.”

Soul Reason Joy Grief Behinds Conditions Ordinary Height Contemplation Conception Sublime Glimpse Exalted Ordinary Life Loopholes

Book:ANNA KARENINA

Source: ANNA KARENINA

“People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.”

People Doe Sometimes Reason Home Dream Girl Courses Grief Habit Bed Pressure Extraordinary Allegiance Great Love Don't Change Fear Of Love People Don't Change

Book:Dreams of Sleep

Source: Dreams of Sleep

“Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears. I'd seen many things in his eyes in the time that I'd known him: lust, amusement, sympathy, mockery, caution, fury. But I had never seen this. Hope. Jericho Barrons had hope, and I was the reason for it. I would never forget his smile. It had illuminated him from the inside out.”

Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned

“Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.”

Matter Reason Hands Grief Cold Commitment

Author:Janet Morris

“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.”

“Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.”

Ifs Knows Giving Sometimes Reason Feelings Turns Walks Grief Attention Cases Instinct Response Pay Attention Knees Initials Jerk Indicators

Author:Esther Hicks

“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.”

Ifs Needs Should Writing States Reason Suffering Turns Process Grief Sorrow Reason Why No Reason Maps Arbitrary

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

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