Grief Quotes

And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

There is no logic to grief.

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that way, I cried it out all the time. I expressed my feelings.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.

It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.

The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.

Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.

Grief isn't all tears.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

It was his own grief turned magically to song.

On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition.

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.

No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.