Grief Quote by Mary Shelley Download Open image ““I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.”” — Mary Shelley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grief
“My sounds [crying] were small and muffled but obvious. No one paid any attention. It was the way we had become. In a world… — Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“We all have our little sorrows...and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.” — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?” — Soheir Khashoggi Copy Share Image
“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“Sorrow is the texture of filtered conscience. It sounds like an infant’s first inhalation and looks like a dormant maiden.” — Sarah Chergui Copy Share Image
“I stopped trying to rank sorrow, realized that the world has sorrow enough for all of us, and when some of it falls to… — Beth Ann Fennelly Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become… — Susan Barbara Apollon Copy Share Image
Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image