“Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.”
Grieving feeling
Grieving Quotes — page 88 of 132
“Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.”
“I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.”
“If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.”
“And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.”
“Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.”
“Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.”
“When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.”
“There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.”
“If there were no Love, there'd be no grief”
“The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.”
“We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]”
“My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.”
“Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.”
“I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.”
“The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.”
“Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.”
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.”
“I cry for those not yet dead.”
“Death makes a prophet's voice louder.”