Grief Quotes

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I'm not particularly keen on pity. Pity takes something away from grief. People think they're sharing it, but really they're just taking some. I prefer to keep my grief intact.

I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.

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.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Freindships multiply joys and divide griefs

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

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

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.

Laughter can shake you from the delirium of 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.

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

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.