Grief Quotes

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...

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. “Forty’s the new thirty, ” they’d joke.Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty’s the new one hundred.

Her only weapons were her tears.

And when I stand in the receiving linelike Jackie Kennedywithout the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken enough Klonopinto still an ox, and you w

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false.

Grief is a peculiar emotion.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings, / That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.

-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.

She felt that at some point she must finally and formally talk to Louisa about Hubert, and ask her to acknowledge that the worst possible thing had happened to her as well.

We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.p 294

Then she said, with piteous defiance, "If I could love her, the Good Lord could, and he won't be too hard on an old lady who didn't have an easy life.

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

It was amazing that you did not become your grief entirely, and walk about leaking it everywhere.

My inheritance is grief and sunlight and the ability to choose which to hold on to.

Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.

There is nothing I can do to keep time from wedging more of itself between us.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

A greater love was always with me. Guiding me and waiting for me to surrender myself so that the glory of grief could bring me back to joy, where it greeted me once again.” - Just Be

You couldn’t make someone love you with a rune, and you couldn’t assuage grief with it either. So much magic, Clary thought, and nothing to mend a broken heart.

Half-broke hearts just didn't have much pep.

I can hear Isaac's smile. It softens his words, but they have a different meaning now. Between his mouth and my ears, they pass through everything that has happened since.

You wrote in a poem, “I love your body, ” as if love was for you embodied in the senses, and yet more than the senses together, an enveloping sense itself sensuous, as if all the body made sense.

LOVE IS LIKE A DESIGNER FASHION, ENJOY IT WHEN YOU HAVE IT. LET IT GO WHEN IT IS GONE BECAUSE A NEW ONE WILL COME.

The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief.

I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.

Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.

He stroked her back and kept a fierce grip on her like she’d fade away into one of the thousands of ghosts in this cemetery.

When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.

Sometimes it is hard not to say "God forgive God." Sometimes, it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.

So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

If you shouldn’t blame yourself for minor things you did or didn’t do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Grief was a terrible and beautiful thing.

I ... am left with the lingering feeling that the places we go in our minds to find comfort have little to do with where our bodies go.

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.