“Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) American writer
'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
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American author Kevin Christopher McFadden 1954Related quotes
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
Keanu Reeves (1964) Canadian actor, director, producer and musician
“On the wings of Time grief flies away.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Sur les ailes du Temps la tristesse s'envole.
Book VI (1668), fable 21.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
“You have never, I think, known real Grief”
Diana Cooper (1892–1986) English social figure, actress and memoirist
Letter to Evelyn Waugh (1 January 1954)
Context: You have never, I think, known real Grief — panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of our lives — you and me particularly. I'm not sure you know human love in the way I do. You have faith and mysticism — intense inner interests — a diverting, virile mind — gusto for vengeance and destruction if necessary, a fancy — a gospel.
What you can't imagine is a creature with a certain iridescent aura and nothing within but a beating frightened heart built round and for Duff... For two days I am quite alone — in these empty rooms with one thought one prayer — "let it end now" — an absurd feminine desire to die in the same way exactly as Duff. [ I have now a ] fearlessness of death — so let it come now before custom of living disinclines me for dying.
“No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) British writer
1840s, The Song of the Shirt (1843)
“Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: Only tragedy allows the release
Of love and grief never normally seen.
I didn't want to let them see me weep,
I didn't want to let them see me weak,
But I know I have shown
That I stand at the gates alone.
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince