Quotes About Overcoming Grief

#1. Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great strength, capable of overcoming grief, not once, but over and over again?

Diana Gabaldon

#2. Surviving the death of a loved one ... one day at a time.

Sandra Toscano Huerta

#3. The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

Dejan Stojanovic

#4. I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.

Rachel L. Schade

#5. You've got to be good or as bad as the devil.

Louis Armstrong

#6. I've always hated the way I looked, and I've never complained about my brains.

Richard Griffiths

#7. I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.

Sylvia Plath

#8. I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

Gavin Rossdale

#9. That's why you have to like a guy like Charles Manson. Say what you will about Manson - he's one of the only people with the decency to look like a dangerous maniac the first time you meet him.

Richard Jeni

#10. It was as if the bones and veins were working their way to the surface; as if the skin were water receding to expose shapes at the bottom of a harbor.

Jonathan Franzen

#11. Wow," Christian exclaimed. "Your hair first thing in the morning is a sight to behold. It's like a Smurf blew up on the top of your head.

Alexa Land

#12. What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

Rachel L. Schade

#13. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

Kathleen Battle

#14. This is the way people dream of being kissed, a movie star kiss

Joe Hill

#15. He had talked to hundreds of witnesses. And he knew that if someone felt pressured, they would try too hard, and their imagination would fill what their memory couldn't recover.

Chelsea Cain

#16. Equality can only exist between equals.
Civilization implies division of labor, division of labor implies subordination and subordination implies injustice and inequality.

Ragnar Redbeard

#17. Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Nancy Friday

#19. When I get home I'll still have to unload the dishwasher and clean my room. Last night my mom got so fed up of my messy floor in my room she picked it all up off the floor and put it on my bed so I would have to clean it up before I went to bed!

Stacie Orrico

#20. Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

Vittorio Alfieri

#21. Grief is a hone to a hard mind.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#22. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.

Rachel L. Schade

#23. I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

Robert Capa

#24. I have a dream of getting a visa, which is a dream that many people have so they can leave their countries to come someplace else, specifically they want to come to the United States.

Juan Luis Guerra

#25. Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice.

Jeffrey Eugenides