
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 220-221]
Sermon VII : Outward and Inward Morality
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 220-221]
„If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art“
— Angelus Silesius German writer 1624 - 1677
The Cherubinic Wanderer
„Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.“
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, buch Half of a Yellow Sun
Quelle: Half of a Yellow Sun
— William Mackergo Taylor American theologian 1829 - 1895
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 506.
„No music was made from grief, moulded from sorrow.“
— Juhani Aho Finnish author and journalist 1861 - 1921
Juhani Aho. Yksin ("Alone," 1890, tr. as Seul 2013); cited in: Guri Barstad, Karen P. Knutsen (2016), States of Decadence: On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 1. p. 2
— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943
Quelle: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 33.
— Josefa Iloilo President of Fiji 1920 - 2011
Opening address to the National Day of Prayer in Suva, 15 May 2005 (excerpts) http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_4607.shtml
„Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„Grief restrains grief as dams torrential rain
And time grows fertile with extended pain“
— J. V. Cunningham American writer 1911 - 1985
'Exclusion of Rhyme' Alan Swallow Denver 1942
Epigrams
— Bonaventure franciscan, bishop, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, catholic saint 1221 - 1274
Life of Christ
„And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.“
— Joyce Kilmer American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier 1886 - 1918
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), In Memory
Kontext: Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover
The angry scar to which the world was blind:
And it was grief that made Mankind your lover,
And it was grief that made you love Mankind.
„Grief dares us to love once more.“
— Terry Tempest Williams, buch Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Quelle: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
— James Allen British philosophical writer 1864 - 1912
As reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 371
— Isabel II do Reino Unido queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and head of the Commonwealth of Nations 1926
Message from the Queen, read by the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, St Thomas's Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue. 22 September 2001. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1341155/Grief-is-price-of-love-says-the-Queen.html
— Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719
No. 169 (13 September 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)