A Grief Observed Quotes

#1. I can make you feel, and I can scare you for real.

-Misty Lee

Misty Lee

#2. Promises," his gran had said once, her sour commentary on the whole affair, "are like pie crusts - meant to be broken.

John Harvey

#3. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

Colette

#4. I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

Loretta Lynn

#5. Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Only mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

Plutarch

#8. It is one thing to understand the doctrine, and quite another to be masters of the controversy.' Lewis's ambition was of course to know the doctrine and to be master of the controversy.

Jocelyn Gibb

#9. I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

Hutch Harris

#10. The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.

A.W. Tozer

#11. Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Charles Dickens

#12. If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.

Heidi Tankersley

#13. A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Seneca The Younger

#14. A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. - Joe Bunch

James Howe

#15. Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.

Robert E. Neale

#16. Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

James A. Haught

#17. How much does a beam of light weigh?

Ijosephi Lowly Worm

#18. Some grief is so great, it can't be felt; it can only be observed. Or denied.

Sylvain Reynard

#19. In both England and the United States, he observed, the contemporary trend was to treat mourning as morbid self-indulgence, and to give social admiration to the bereaved who hide their grief so fully that no one would guess anything had happened.

Joan Didion

#20. I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.

Joseph Jackson

#21. Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

C.S. Lewis

#22. It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt