- Just
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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
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
- Healing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020