Quotes by Grief 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? Amity Gaige childhood grief remember And sometimes we cling because the memory is so painful that we can't stop visiting it and hoping to make it come out differently. The risk of letting go is that we have to confront our own selves and our own possibilities. Amy Bloom grief letting-go memories Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless. Amy Bloom grief writing lying I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief. Amy Hempel grief mother baby Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. Anandamayi Ma pain grief play After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love. Andre Dubus pain grief soul I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.' Andre Dubus grief dark thinking The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. Andrea Gibson grief want writing There are no solutions to life, but there is an experience of wholeness, of bliss, of being, of the deathlessness of the Divine Self, of Silence in all its multifacted, diamond splendor that heals all grief, all wounds, all questions. Andrew Harvey silence grief self Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. Andrew Solomon bereavement grief depression Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory Andrew Solomon grief air depression Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love. Andrew Solomon grief suffering people I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents. Andrew Solomon gay grief children I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies. Andrew Sullivan whining politics grief At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end? André Aciman grief overcoming loss It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else. Andy Stanley grief missionary people I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts. Angelina Jolie fulfilled lasts grief And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. Anita Shreve grief might way Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. Anita Shreve exhausting grief Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. Ann Brashares six-months three grief «1234567891011»