And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again. . . . Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: heart sorrow grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. —Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love More about this quote Tags: change grief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter what anybody says about grief, and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken. —Tiffanie DeBartolo in God-Shaped Hole More about this quote Tags: memory sorrow grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely. —Alyson Noël in Night Star More about this quote Tags: time memory grief sadness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That life … that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied — nonetheless she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when it would not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret. —Sigrid Undsetfs More about this quote Tags: life God regret grief rage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for joy. —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Tags: truth space grief joy healing relief overcoming test room Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. —Marcus Antonius More about this quote Tags: grief suffering anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow. —Ann Radcliffe More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is light grief that can take counsel. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible. —Euripides More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. —George Henry Lewes More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only cure for grief is action. —Homer More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. —Sophocles More about this quote Tags: grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email