Grief Quotes

by and by, the cause of my disease Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting, When that I think what grief it is again To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

The time at length arrives, when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

There is no grief like heartbreak.

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.

At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

Ah, grief makes us precise!

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.