Grief Quotes

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. Carrie Brownstein

Grief Feeling Allowance Sort

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing. Chris Jordan

Grief is exhausting. Ciaran Hinds

Grief Exhausting

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance. Clint Smith

Music Grief Dance Paradoxically Somewhat New Dead New Orleans Celebration Mourned Public Much Hometown Orleans Spectacle

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years. Dan Chaon

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For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief. David Bowie

God Me Grief Age Thank God Daughter Own Cloud About Know Knowing Leave Up Thank Going Often Just Doubles Her

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost. Denis Leary

My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct. Derek Walcott

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. Dominic Cooper

You Grief Out Least Jumps Expecting

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. Edward Hirsch

Grief Emotions Poets Always Celebrated Human Human Emotions Deepest

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief. Edward Hirsch

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I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. Francine Prose

Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights. Frank Deford

Good Science Grief Result National Overwhelming Every Side Despite Worries About Fact Badminton League Sport Accept Still Permits Brain Brain Damage Hockey Refuses Fights Medical Damage

More and more teams are, in the vernacular, 'going small,' with only one big man down deep. Good grief, the position of power forward is in the process of going the way of short shorts. Frank Deford

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief. Gerry Adams

Grief Think Worst Worst Kind Kind

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. Gregory Nunn

Grief Joy Understood Estate

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into the throat of grief. Can you make laughter and seriousness so close that they are the same thing? Howard Jacobson

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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. Isaac Mayer Wise

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Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. James Wolcott

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There are many stages of grief. Jennifer Aniston

Grief Stages Many

If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief. Jim Crace

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