I think it’s too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles. – Margo Jefferson
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours. – M. J. Rose
In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we’re depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. – Laura Dern
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. – Marcel Proust
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. – Mark Twain
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. – Martha Beck
If I’m feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer. – James Nachtwey
For a kid who’s lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very. – Jon Hamm
I was working the Gulf of Mexico on oil rigs, flying helicopters. I’d lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired for not letting 24 hours go between the throttle and the bottle. It looked like I’d trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. – Kris Kristofferson
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them. – James Nachtwey
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. – Marianne Williamson
The work of the artist is to express what is repressed or even to speak the unspoken grief of society. – Michael Leunig
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. – Lord Byron
In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong. – James A. Forbes
I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it. – Justin Kurzel
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. – Lady Gregory
Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment – whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief. – Malcolm Turnbull
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. – John Woolman
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. – Joy Page
They have – they do still hit me occasionally, and it’s an overwhelming grief for what – even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible. – Lynn Redgrave
In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression. – Kay Redfield Jamison
None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us. – Leslie Odom, Jr.
I think the heartbreak of September 11 – America’s grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence – has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day. – Marianne Williamson
When you’ve been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say ‘try,’ I really do mean try, because it’s an effort. – Marie Helvin
