Best grief & sorrow Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

Source: New Poems: A Revised Bilingual Edition

“Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.”

Way Suffering Hurt Grief Sorrow Painful Scar Fades New Ways It Hurts Configuration Scabs

Book:Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Source: Men We Reaped: A Memoir

“There is no space wider than that of grief.”

Suffering Space Grief Sorrow

Book:The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

Source: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

“Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”

Eye Suffering Grief Sorrow Blind Distance Wave Knees Apprehension Magical Thinking

Author:Joan Didion

“I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.”

Ifs Suffering Language Grief Dying Sorrow Glorious Priests Exhausted Knots Headache Sorrowful

Author:Virginia Heffernan

“Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.”

Suffering Grief Behinds Sorrow Parting Behind You

Book:Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke

Source: Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”

Body Beautiful Grief Taken Sorrow Clothes Naked Sweetness Jackets Rags Undressing Old Clothes

Author:Rumi

“The creation itself is full of griefs. How can one understand joy if there is no sorrow? And how can everyone be happy at the same time?”

Ifs Joy Grief Creation Sorrow

Book:At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi

Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi

“This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.”

Mind Book Soul Grief Darkness Sorrow Despair My Soul Triumph

Book:The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures

Source: The Cosmic God: A Fundamental Philosophy in Popular Lectures

“Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!”

Wells Together Grief Sorrow Glory Agree Weather September Leafs Sunny Scarlet Sunny Weather

Author:Thomas Parsons

“From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations”

Joy Sports Grief Brain Sorrow Laughter Delight Despondency Lamentation

Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?”

Knows Doe Grief Saws Sweet Sorrow Taste Blessing Sells Drinking Caught Cups Ruined

Author:Rumi

“The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.”

Littles Care Fall Loss Grief Kindness Security Sorrow Safe Busy Soldier Employment Leisure Spares Idleness Antidote Lamentation Seamen

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.”

Found Grief Sorrow Rewards

Book:Science And Health

Source: Science And Health

“There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again.”

Way Persons Long Given Felt Grief Sorrow Late Endure Ridiculous Too Late Customs Never Too Late

Author:Marcel Proust

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