Grief Quotes

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.

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

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

There are griefs which grow with years.

On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has given my share- I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?

If we could not forget, we would never be free from grief.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.