Unbearable Grief Quotes

#1. There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

Rand Paul

#3. Willpower is a muscle that can be strengthened.

Roy Baumeister

#4. Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

Joseph O'Neill

#5. You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Donovan

#6. We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

#7. They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.

Andrea Mitchell

#8. I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Pete Townshend

#9. A man, good or bad, was magnificent. It was not possible that this thing that was nothing and would never change [death] could mean the end of everything that moved and changed within him - the good, the bad, the magnificent. Yet it did.

Richard Flanagan

#10. There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure - the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#11. With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

Rosanne Cash

#12. If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#13. If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Wayne Dyer

#14. I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

Lenny Abrahamson

#15. Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

Gail Caldwell

#16. But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.

N. Maria Kwami

#17. As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss.

Robert J. Wiersema

#18. Surviving makes other people's tears unbearable. You might drown in them.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens