Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
When tears fall that silently and that quickly, they're coming from your heart. It's like you have a soul-wound, and I just punctured it, and it bled tears.
- Robin Jones Gunn
From earliest childhood, an arrow of grief has been embedded in my heart. As long as it remains there, I am ironic — if it is drawn out, I will die.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The Lord doesn't always remove the sources of stress in our lives...but He's always there and cares for us. We can feel His arms around us on the darkest night.
- James Dobson
I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed.
- Alice Hoffman
Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.
- Alice Hoffman
At first it appeared as if something with wings had fallen from above... perhaps an angel who had faltered then drowned, in tears of this poor tired world.
- Alice Hoffman
I want the difficult stories, the ones that aren't easy to believe, the twisted ones, the sorrowful ones, the ones that need telling most of all.
- Alice Hoffman
I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.
- Alice Hoffman
You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.
- Alice Hoffman
I had lost my mother and my father and my sister, and sometimes when I caught a glimpse of myself in a shop window, I wondered if perhaps I hadn't lost myself as well
- Alice Hoffman
People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.
- Alice Hoffman
A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.
- Alice Hoffman