Best grief & weight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

People Thinking Pain Life Is Religious Grief Greater Trouble Mines Comfort Weight Rose Aids Affliction Torment Consolation Martyr Solace

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.”

Firsts Wanted Causes Process Grief Essence Weight Guilt Misery Burden Melancholy Rejected Homosexuality Outlook Despised Deviate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“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.”

“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.”

Firsts Believe Children Moments Loss Sleep Grief Forever First Time Weight Fugitive Sleeping Child

Author:Anne Michaels

“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

“He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.”

Knows Way Humans Said Different Courses Common Grief Color Sorrow Weight Dimensions

Book:The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

Used Grief Sorrow Weight Burden Bereavement Anchors Grief And Healing Griefing Truth About Forever

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”

Wells Body Happens Eye Lying Grief One Day Skins Weight Deeper Bones Wounds Shoulders Heal Hips Openness Sheer Angle Penetrate Geography Texture Your Smile Sharpness Luster

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“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

“For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”

Men Might Dies Memories Common Grief Secret Emotional Mass Weight Died Longing Terror Gravity Cowardice Embarrassed Tangible Shameful Baggage Emotional Baggage

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“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

“In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses. At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home. And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.”

Firsts Made Sometimes Facts Home School Beautiful Left Grief Morning Mom Weight Accidents Get Up Breakfast Resurrection Every Morning Rebirth Zombie Corpses Marble Skip Immensity Frigid

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.”

Firsts Force My Own Grief Awareness Waste Ocean First Time Weight Indifferent Limitless Boundless Starks Stranded

Author:John Banville

“The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.”

Long Sometimes Loss Answers Grief Existence Mystery Love You Gratitude Long Time Weight Deeper Driven Knees Sanctity Wakes You

Author:Dean Koontz

“I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.”

Grief Air Bears Weight

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts.”

People Thinking Feels Different Ends Choices Deals Grief Journey Weight Disappointment Loved Ones Death Of A Loved One Relationships Ending

Author:Tori Amos

“The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse while they flow, That can no comfort bring, That can, that can no comfort bring, With those exciting scenes will blend, O'er pleasure's pathway thrown; But mem'ry is the only friend That grief can call its own.”

Heart Pleasure Grief Comfort Scene Flow Weight Exciting Impulse Thrown Bows Woe Pathways

Author:Alfred Bunn

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