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Grief Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
- People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on…
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on…
- We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got…
- I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is…
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.
- Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But…
- I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual.…
- Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
- For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going…
- My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering…
- Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
- Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
- No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering…
More Grief Quotes
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius
- I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That… — Kathleen Battle
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
- There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
- Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? — William Blake
- Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual… — James Buchan
- To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the… — Alcaeus
- In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. — William S. Burroughs
- For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a… — Lord Byron