Quotes about Grief
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
- Oscar Wilde
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
- Cormac McCarthy
Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
- Cormac McCarthy
Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.
- Cormac McCarthy
Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.
- Cormac McCarthy
The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. So, he whispered to the sleeping boy. I have you.
- Cormac McCarthy
The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.
- Cormac McCarthy
Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.
- Cormac McCarthy