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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief Quotes
Words for the weight of loss and the slow work of healing.
Several lines resist the idea of grief as something to conquer once, describing it instead as a shifting, day-to-day experience. Read more in our Healing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
- Nov 07, 2020
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
- Calmness
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.
- Battle
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can laugh at my own grief.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020