Grief Quotes by Gregory David Roberts

9 Grief quotes by Gregory David Roberts

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Roberts doesn’t shy away from grief’s gritty reality. These nine snippets reveal his straightforward, often stark storytelling, offering readers a candid look at loss that feels both personal and universally relatable.

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“I felt a darkness growing within me that was too numb for sorrow and too cold for rage.”

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“When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.”

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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is:…

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I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from…

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The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they…

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“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness,…

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at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should…

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“I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier…

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“But I couldn't respond. My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no…

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I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an…

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“Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is…

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Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman…

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A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

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Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

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Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever..

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“I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed,…

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I don't know what frightens me more

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“I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women,…

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you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them…

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Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, &…

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I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

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