Best grief & water Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.”

Ifs Long Enough Bigs Moving Left Stars Water Memories Grief Behinds Huge Long Time Shining Endure Calm Wave Moving Forward Boat Keep Moving Behind You Swamps

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?”

Water Hurt Sin Forget Grief Support One Day Projects Commit Mute Boiling Boiling Water Lack Of Support Geysers

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don't ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don't apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.”

“Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.”

Knows Wells Stills Black Water Grief Secret Darkness Clear Source Cold Drink Rounds Surface Breathe Thrown Slips Coins

Author:David Whyte

“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”

World Feels May Children Stills Light Lying Night Stars Grows Waiting Sound Water Nature Grief Grace Taxes Despair Blind Woods My Children Wild Things Forethought Still Waters Herons

Book:New Collected Poems

Source: New Collected Poems

“to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.”

“When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.”

Feelings Motivational Joy Passion Water Animal Grief Emotion Sorrow Delight Knees Pet Contagious

Book:The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter

Source: The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy — and Why They Matter

“All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.”

Ifs World Values Water Loss Grief Tears Birth Waste Endless Cycles Capture Shed Birth And Death Love And Loss

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly rigid. Does grief change you like that? Through the birches, I could see the pond. The sun was cutting small white holes in the water. I got up finally; I walked down to the pond. I stood there, brushing the grass from my skirt, watching myself, like a girl after her first lover turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a sign. But nakedness in women is always a pose. I was not transfigured. I would never be free.”

Thinking Firsts Doe Moving Girl Water White Grief Sun Cutting Praying Lovers Mirrors Legs Holes Naked Grass Bathroom Skirts Ponds Brushing

Author:Louise Glück

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”

Source: Taggerung

“As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.”

Long Faces Moving Stuff Water Dark Grief Behinds Hair Arms Weight Throat Floating Catching Touch Me Swimmer Slick Long Hair

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”

Humans Heart Water Can Do Grief Sorrow Sad Limits Add Moving On Grieving Salt Human Heart

Author:Sarah Waters

“But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”

Knows Littles Stills Sometimes Water Grief Feet Walking Wave Enormous Fierce Flood Quench

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.”

Way Feels Looks Sides Water Grief Darkness Color Taste Letting Go Lows Weight Pressure Breaths Bottom Deeper Buried Metals Echoes Dirt Lungs Choke Sinking Claws Old Things Squeezing

Author:Lauren Oliver

“The obliterated place is equal parts destruction and creation. The obliterated place is pitch black and bright light. It is water and parched earth. It is mud and it is manna. The real work of deep grief is making a home there.”

Real Home Light Earth Black Water Grief Creation Equal Destruction Mud Real Work Bright Lights Pitch Black Deep Grief

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.”

“Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.”

Love Matter Water Love Is Grief Adversity Fades Fabric Best Love Beautiful Love Never Fade

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Tears water our growth.”

Growth Water Grief Tears Grieving Loss Of A Loved One

Author:William Shakespeare

“Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.”

Water Space Grief Grieving Salt Space Between Salt Water

Book:Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels

Source: Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels

“We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.”

Way Want Soul Eye Water Grief Fire Tree Caught Storm Dust Fragile Yellow Scream Agony Rabbits Frogs Drought Indestructible Pollen

Author:Deena Metzger

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