Grief Quotes

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

No one feels another's grief.

No grief reaches the dead.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself-more birds than women flocking round his body!

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Poems allow us not only to bear the tally and toll of our transience, but to perceive, within their continually surprising abundance, a path through the grief of that insult into joy.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Grief dares us to love once more.

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.

Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.