Grief Quotes

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

Success doesn't change you... It reveals you

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

A child can live with anything as long as he or she is told the truth and is allowed to share with loved ones the natural feelings people have when they are suffering.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Each person's grief journey is unique as a fingerprint or a snowflake.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.