Best grief & whole Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.”

“... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.”

Giving Whole Suffering Grief Modern Tendencies Substance Something New Globes

Author:Louise Bogan

“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

“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”

May Littles Matter Whole Happens Earth Together Three Chance Walks Grief Family Sun Five Groups Blood Brilliant Billions Triumph Twelve Shuffle Groups Of Three

Book:Evergreen

Source: Evergreen

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.”

Ifs Heart Children Littles Soul Whole Moments Past Suffering Grief Terrible Disaster Present Moment Spells Live In The Present Just Live Without Hope Wholeheartedly

Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp

“Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin”

Ifs Men Made Soul Whole Christ Sin Grief Needed Sorrow Miracle Stronger Dependent Pool Healed Atonement Lame Needed Someone

Author:Merrill J. Bateman

“The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.”

Whole Found Language Community Perfect Grief Emotion Healing Mystery Myth Block Manage Sand Equilibrium Heartfelt Chapel Isle Sass Abigail

Author:Brunonia Barry

“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

“Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.”

Ifs World Made Soul Matter Enough Whole Joy Grief Virtue Subjects Masters Glory Clean Whole World Irrational Communion Governing Make Happy

Author:Sallust

“I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.”

People Whole Grief Orphan Guatemala

Book:I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)

Source: I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (Second Edition)

“If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.”

Ifs Whole Seems Would Be Happiness Grief Written Mere Breasts Inward Foe Brows Seeming Envied

Author:Pietro Metastasio

“So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.”

Giving Feels Firsts May Whole Feelings Body Light Seems Pain Turns Dark Grief Attention Consciousness Darkness Loneliness Your Body Cells Flames Urges Dread Refrain Labeling

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.”

Giving Whole Grief Disappointment Envy Circles Malice

Book:The philosophical works of David Hume

Source: The philosophical works of David Hume

“One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother her whole life and made my grandmother seem present even though I never met her. I couldn't imagine how my mom could go on but she did, she took care of us, she worked two jobs and had four children. She was such a good example of how to conduct oneself in a time of grief. When I lost my husband, I tried to model myself as much as I could on her.”

“I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!”

I Can Whole Used Joy Grief Break Feet Pool Liquor Pebbles Wade

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”

“He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted”

Trying Littles Stills Whole Found Easy Grief Cutting Honest Cry Depth Quitting Pleasant Unnecessary Exaggerating

Author:Richard Yates

“I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me!” The change in his features also caught me by surprise. His voice filled the room. So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian. He strode toward me, hand clasped over his chest. “I. Loved. You. And you used me the whole time.”

Wells Heart Whole Hands Might Used Voice Rooms Grief Saws My Heart Filled Surprise Caught Destroyed Features Chairs Chests Usual Ripped I Loved You

Author:Richelle Mead

“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”

World Whole Loses Loss Grief Enemy Sad Whole World World War Ii What You Love

Author:Kristina McMorris

“New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.”

Feels Believe Whole Stories Hurt Rooms Grief Forever Air Missing Endure Don't Believe Absence More Time Filling Reminders Passing Away Grievers

Book:Jayber Crow: A Novel

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.”

Knows Whole House Walks Rooms Grief Wind Lonely Structure Scary Architecture Emptiness Sorrowful Rambling Walk With Me

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it.”

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor must we see grief as a step toward something better. No matter how much it hurts-and it may be the greatest pain in life-grief can be an end in itself, a pure expression of love.”

Love May Ends Matter Whole Pain Process Natural Hurt Grief Healing Steps Expression Pure Disorder Gestures It Hurts Something Better Healing Process Expressions Of Love Pain In Life

Author:Gerald May

“Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us”

Feels Sometimes Whole Purpose Grief Knowing Sadness Skins Cells Layers

Book:Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles

“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.”

Whole Stories Death Forget Grief Modern Fashion Husband Details Distress Bereavement Mourn Speechless Dazed Modern Woman

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.”

People Wells Heart Self Sometimes Whole Grief Flats Sane Complaints Stride Accomplices Ambush

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.”

Hard Whole Powerful Grief Rich Guilt Corruption Combination Liquid Liquor Informing

Book:The Gospel Of Judas

Source: The Gospel Of Judas

“The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.”

Heart Whole Joy Suffering Given Perfect Grief Sweet Sorrow Offers Given Up Illumination Rushing Martyred

Book:Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

“There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.”

World Doe Whole Suffering Grief Terrible Sorrow Whole World Exquisite Vibrate

Book:De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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