Grief Quotes

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)

Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.

There's no easy path through grief and trauma. Learning from the experiences of people who'd been through similar losses was helpful.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.

In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.

Those griefs smart most which are seen to be of our own choice.

Only poetry can address grief.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

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

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.

grief is an illness I can't recover from.

Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

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

There is no shortcut to grieving.

The leaf, still green, must someday fall such grief and joy to live at all.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

When grief recedes, grief is like a cloud.

If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

Christ's peace can permeate any heart - hearts that are troubled, burdened with grief, confused, and pleading for help.

When you're at a funeral and you're crying, you're crying for yourself

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.