George Herbert Quotes

Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied you this or that, on which you had set your heart, that all your life must be a blank,--oh, then diet yourself well on biography,--the biography of good and great men. See how little a space one sorrow really makes in life. See scarce a page, perhaps, given to some grief similar to your own, and how triumphantly the life sails on beyond it.

Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that’s your first concern.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

It is useless to tear our hair out when we are in grief, since sorrow is not cured by baldness

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

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.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Memory is the only friend of grief.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.