Best grief & wave Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.”

Firsts Eye Memories Grief Dog Tears Moon Notes Wave Sunlight Sleepers Jingles Dog Food Saboteurs

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.”

Different States Feelings Grief Stage Wave

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“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

“And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die.”

Doe Young Night Song Dies Belief Stars Grief Sea Sky Cold Wave Flight Thrilling Phoenix Starry Night

Author:May Sarton

“The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?”

Heart Grief Wave Blow Graves Grass Waking

Book:Rivers to the Sea

Source: Rivers to the Sea

“The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'”

“I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.”

Thinking Wells Used Found Grief Awareness Prepared Wave Illness Manic Depressive

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.”

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Author:Emily Saliers

“The one thing I know for a fact - some days are bad, some days are okay, and I'll go with it. If it's bad, I stay in and ride the wave and somehow, God gets me through and I'm fine. Dealing with grief doesn't work from one person to the other, it's so personal.”

Ifs Knows Persons Facts Grief One Thing Fine Okay Wave

Author:Iman Abdulmajid

“I think faith is incredible important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.”

Thinking Giving Believe Important Turns I Believe Grief Grace Happenings Incredibles Wave Gods Will Believe In God Overwhelmed

Author:Joel Osteen

“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.”

“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

“And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.”

Years Long Has Beens Said Desire Fighting Given Grief Shadow Lonely Wave Spending Echoes

Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”

World Sometimes Light Remember Found Left Grief Empty Wave Wrecks

Author:Donna Tartt

“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

“The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions

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