Grief Observed Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Sylvain Reynard

#4. WHAT A SHOCK WHEN THEY TELL YOU
IT WON'T HURT AND YOU ALMOST
TURN INSIDE OUT WHEN THEY BEGIN.

Jenny Holzer

#5. I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.

Frank E. Peretti

#6. At 3 A.M., I'm still up watching videos of jazz heroes I never saw live. It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

Bonnie Raitt

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

Robert E. Neale

#8. It is traumatic to find out that so much of what you have been taught to believe and stand for is actually used to control you

Malebo Sephodi

#9. I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

#10. So I guess what I am trying to say is life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season
or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. Our choices. Our fleeting moments together.

Emily Giffin

#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. When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Brian Bosworth

#13. Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

Blaise Pascal

#14. These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

Jose Canseco

#15. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#17. He was probably a Sagittarius, like Rosalie herself, born with a quiver of arrows, and a license to be an asshole.

Frank Portman

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

C.S. Lewis

#19. Lack of homework shows up in the marketplace as well as in the classroom.

Jim Rohn