Grief Quotes

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.

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

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

Grief isn't all 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.

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.

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.

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

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

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

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.

Don't look for a life virtually free from discomfort, pain, pressure, challenge, or grief, for those are the tools a loving Father uses to stimulate our personal growth and understanding.

What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.