Top 25 Grief Quotes of 2079 - Page 84

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

Agnes Repplier

Grief, Bears, Trouble

Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

Adrienne Rich

Women, Grief, Tears

Adrienne Rich (1967). “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law: Poems, 1954-1962”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.

Adrienne Rich

Wall, War, Grief

Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

Death is a door life opens.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Grief, Doors

Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”

Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.

Ada Limon

Grief, Moving, Mean

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One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

Abigail McCarthy

Dream, Regret, Grief

His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?

Aberjhani

Grief, Fighting, Destiny

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

Aberjhani

Spiritual, Grief, Creativity

Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.27, Lulu.com