Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian “No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die.” Taken Horse Grief ♥ 7
SD Samuel Daniel Poet “Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.” Light Silence Grief ♥ 7
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet “There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.” Reality Pain Grief ♥ 7
Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist “God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.” Party Grief Loneliness ♥ 7
Rumi Poet, Philosopher “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” Real Dream Grief ♥ 7
Nancy Reagan Political Figure, First Lady “What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.” Pain Hurt Grief ♥ 7
MM Madeline Miller Author “People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same.” People War Grief ♥ 7
Z Zhuangzi Philosopher “I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things.” Air Death Grief ♥ 7
Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer “If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.” Mean Grief Sadness ♥ 7
Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher “There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.” Suffering Grief Buddhist ♥ 7
Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher “From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?” Fear Grief Buddhist ♥ 7
Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor “Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt.” Causes Grief Opinion ♥ 7
