He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him. ~Hans Christian Andersen, from “The Ugly Duckling”
Tag: sorrow
Grieving Quote
I wasn’t a stranger to grieving, to the way it drowned you but didn’t kill you – only kept you submerged for so long you forgot what air and sunshine even felt like… ~Katherine CenteContinue reading
When Calls the Heart Quote
I want you to share all your joys and sorrows, both privately and publicly. So, I’m hoping that, rather than going for a drive, you might walk me home? ~Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow) in “WhenContinue reading
Grief Quote
Grief is such a strange thing. Sometimes it seems to be gone entirely, but then one smell or sound or memory and it’s as if it was waiting there, in the shadows, until you noticedContinue reading
The Buddha Quote
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all. ~The Buddha
Grief Quote
Blue doesn’t describe loss. Grief robs the world of color. Turns it heavy and gray. ~Ellery Adams
Marcel Proust Quote
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. SuchContinue reading
Downton Abbey Grief Quote
Nothing makes you hungrier or more tired than grief. When my sister died, God rest her soul, I ate my way through four platefuls of sandwiches at one sitting and slept around the clock. ~MrsContinue reading
Grief Quote
“Sometimes the grief was nearby, waiting, just barely held back, and I could ignore it for a while. But at other times it was like a cup that was always full and kept spilling over.”Continue reading
Charles Fletcher Lummis Quote
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.~Charles Fletcher Lummis
Grief Quote
People think grief somehow fades with time. “Time heals,” they say. What a crock. There’s no cure for this. You can’t accept it. You can’t absorb it. Grief is a rabid animal you hold atContinue reading
Johnny Depp Quote
People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because thy’ve been strong for too long.~Johnny Depp
Grief Quote
It can be so challenging when people do not understand your pain. They suggest that you “move on”, that you should be done by now. They don’t mean to be unkind — they simply cannotContinue reading
Grief Quote
The expectation that we “get over” or “move on” from a profound loss or crisis is not only unrealistic, but it may even be harmful in its call to amputate grief rather than integrate itContinue reading