#grief

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#poignant #business

I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution. ↗

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

#grief #loss #anger

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. ↗

— Gregory Nunn

#grief #joy #understood

They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this, and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man. ↗

— John Pearson

#days #equal #extend #griefs #hope

My work has typically been about finding a means to express memory and commemoration for loss and grief. ↗

— John Regan

#been #express #finding #grief #loss

Grief is the price we pay for love. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#grief #love #pay #price

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#apologise #australians #children #communities #country

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#does #grief #like #speak

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed