Top 1200 Grief And Loss Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Accept loss forever.

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

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

We all understand loss. It's about what you do with that.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

What I hate is the loss of anonymity.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

A loss is something tough.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

One loss is not the end of my career.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

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

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

A loss is always frustrating.

Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

To win you have to risk loss.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Everyone deals with loss.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

I always noticed that in art school, that grief was considered more profound than happiness. But why?

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Nothing can bring my Jordan back but I have learned to channel my grief into action to honor my son.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

To win, you have to risk loss.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

We have to prevent loss of life.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.