Grief Quotes

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

Graystripe pushed past Tigerheart and Whitestorm and crouched beside his old friend. "I would have taken your place if you had let me". His voice was hoarse with grief.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.

In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

For some moments in life there are no words.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.

So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

Think of suffering as being washed.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

A mourner is, perforce, a person with a story. The pity is, how very rarely it gets told.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

Great joys, like griefs, are silent.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.