Grief Quotes

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

Sorrow can be a bully.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.

I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.

The greatest griefs are silent.

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.

My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest, To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.