Quotes of: Grief Keyword

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Levels of Life

I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

Mister God, This is Anna

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Macbeth

Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy Stardust.

The Student Prince

... Now to die of grief would mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomers are unwelcome, particularly in the future. ...

So Forth: Poems

He thinks he can see all her grief in her face, all her love and empty days.

The Silver Dark Sea

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

The Truth About Forever

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Perfect Match

There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death.

The Promise of Stardust

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

The Road

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

Widow: Stories

The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.

The Wolf in Winter

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.

Meghan O'Rourke

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

Meghan O'Rourke

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

Oliver Gaspirtz

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Paul Engle

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

Peter Temple

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison