Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Denise Levertov

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Deb Caletti

This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

Dennis Lehane

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

Dennis Lehane

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

Charles Kingsley

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

Charles Darwin

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

Charles Darwin

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

Alexandre Dumas

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

Alain de Botton

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

William Walker

Light and life were extinguished. It was wrong. It was only the most dramatic recent example of why levels of tension, bitterness and frustration are so high,

Tom Watson

Lots of bittersweet things have happened to me since Bruce's diagnosis in January. The bitterness is that there's nothing to hang on to. Your hope is to find an island before you run out of time.

Mark Richard

My first thought was that in some way, I needed to bring honor to God through this situation and not show any bitterness because that would not help my children at all,

John Vines

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about ... people will have differences of opinion,

John Vines

Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing,

Todd Solondz

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

Dan Boone

She was rescued by her neighbors and hospitalized. Friends accompanied her during surgery and contributed blood. Her recovery took several months. She didn't let bitterness hold her back. She resumed teaching and studying international affairs.

Agnes Smedley

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

Audre Lorde

If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

Arthur Miller

Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.

Arthur Miller

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

Ayn Rand

The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.

Bryant H. McGill

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Carroll Shelby

If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.

Ricky Gervais

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Brent Weeks

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.