Best grief & universe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.”

Has Beens Earth Dies Universe Born Grief Grieving Life And Death Transformed Butterfly Caterpillars Grieving A Death

Author:John Harricharan

“The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.”

Whole Body Death Universe Grief Alive Brother Filled Errors Scales Immortality My Brother Immortal Concealed Outrage Younger Brother

Author:Marguerite Duras

“Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.”

“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”

Kind Young Universe Grief Grace Cutting Century Tears Please Species Novelists Silver Minors Smooth Widows Suggesting Sentimentality Placid Acacia

Book:The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“The only thing that's real in any universe [is] that brilliant fire of Love that burns to the exclusion of everything else. As we recognize the presence of Love, we break through the wall of grief that would try to convince us that the dear soul with whom we have learned and loved so much no longer exists, or that she or he cannot speak with us. There is no wall that Love cannot vaporize. We may believe in death, Love doesn't.”

Trying Believe May Real Soul Universe Speak Grief Break Fire Wall Dear Brilliant Convince Exclusion Break Through Convince Us Fire Of Love Presence Of Love

Author:Richard Bach

“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!”

Ifs Knows World Firsts Believe Persons Earth Universe Pleasure Grief This World Please Let Me Misery Almighty Woe Diseased Omniscient Nero

Author:Bhagat Singh

“Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.”

World Life Matter Seems Together Lying Universe Next Names Grief Darkness Pieces Broken Sorrow This Life Sunday Our World Desperation Friday Shattered Together Again Lds

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

Universe Grief Blood Week Reflection Smell Overwhelmed Insects Lungs Bereavement Luminous Suffocating

Book:One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.”

Long Eye Universe Grief Knowing Subjects Cost Distance Patterns Credit Driven Usual Crash Ceo Borrowing Through The Eyes Interruptions Borrowing Money

Author:James Buchan

“The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85”

Heart May Helping Pain Universe Grief Compassion Greater Bears Comfort One Day Flow Let Me Embrace Ease Grieving Goddess Open Your Heart Greater Love

Book:The Calling: Book Seven

Source: The Calling: Book Seven

“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”

Men Universe Justice Grief Eternal Injustice Protest

Author:Albert Camus

“If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.”

Ifs Want Should Persons Universe Grows Realizing Loss Grief Program Graduates

Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

“Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.”

World Heart Persons States Feelings Seems Turns Universe Imagination Grief Figures Emotional Relate Beloved Rome Being In Love Pivotal Emotional Life

Book:Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir

“Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.”

Giving Earth Fall Universe Grief Taught Ought Draws Horse Lays Immortal Hostage Chariots

Book:The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic

Source: The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic

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