Grief Quotes

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

A human life is a story told by God.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.