Best grief & wind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.”

Grief Wind Paint Shade Twilight Grey Bereavement Mourn

“Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.”

Knows Grief Wind Like You Golf Impulse

Author:Jackie Gleason

“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.”

Looks Children I Can Book Home My Own Grief Watches Wind Sitting Nostalgia Paralyzed Snapshots

Author:Francine Prose

“A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all day, sighed heavily from time to time, as though foretelling in grief the ravages of the coming storm. The bat skimmed in fantastic flights through the heavy air, and the ground was alive with crawling things, whose instinct brought them forth to swell and fatten in the rain.”

Grief Break Alive Air Tree Wind Rain Instinct Heavy Storm Flight Fantastic Fallen Length Stillness Bats Unnatural Spooky Crawling Blight Shrubs Foretelling

Book:Novels

Source: Novels

“My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.”

Littles Soul Grief Wind My Soul Climbs Chests Throat Sigh Grappling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.”

Ifs Hard Running Grief Wind Blow Gentle Swim Sail Sailing Harbors Picnics

Author:Barbara Ascher

“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

“And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.”

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese

“What I know about living is the pain is never just ours Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window When I can see what I couldn’t see before, through the glass of my most battered dream, I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did, it scattered a thousand seeds. So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better”

Knows Trying Mind I Can Moments Dream Pain Together Next Loses Hurt Grief Wind Listening Thousand Window Skins Glasses Seeds Wounds Get Better Echoes Next Time Battered Dandelions

Author:Andrea Gibson

“He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.”

Ifs Long Seems Would Be Grief Clear Wind Shapes Guilt Clouds Illness Weather Defined Finite Nameless

Author:Julian Barnes

“Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.”

Knows Wells Heart May Soul Joy Sides Space Grief Wind Victory Sorrow Drink Glory Roots Defeat Deeper Shakes Oaks Rapture Trunks

Author:Edwin Markham

“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”

Heart Lying Song Simple Grief Cutting Sea Dog Wind Broken Bird Blow Wounds Tiny Rings Holes Bells Salt Cracked Clutch Stray Dogs

Author:Michael Leunig

“Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.”

Humans Soul Joy Born Grief Sadness Wind Sweetness Indescribable

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.”

Men Heart Hands Eye Happiness Faces Joy Dies Grows Grief Tears Wind Laughter Blow Heavy Breasts Tides Stride Tidy

Book:Poetry

Source: Poetry

“Life can give you strength. Strength can come from facing the storms of life, from knowing loss, feeling sadness and heartache, from falling into the depths of grief. You must stand up in the storm. You must face the wind and the cold and the darkness. When the storm blows hard you must stand firm, for it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.”

Giving Trying Hard Feelings Faces Fall Strong Loss Grief Teach Darkness Knowing Sadness Wind Cold Depth Blow Storm Firm Heartache Stand Firm Feeling Sad Storms Of Life

Author:Joseph M. Marshall III

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