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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I don't believe in God, so I'd say that laughter is one of the only true weapons for fighting against real darkness, grief and loss.
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.
The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.
Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.
The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
Rainbows introduce us to reflections
of different beautiful possibilities
so we never forget that pain and grief
are not the final options in life.
Grief held back from the lips wears at the heart; the drop that refused to join the river dried up in the dust.
Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?
words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.
One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.
When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.
The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.
A King and Queen can comfort the people in times of grief, and provide a nationalist camaraderie. That is the gift that royalty can give back.
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
She was no longer wrestling with the grief,
but could sit down with it as a lasting companion
and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.
Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn't get any grief. Why me?
Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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.
From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.
I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.
Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.
