Grief Quotes

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

The only cure for grief is action.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Blessed is he who has a soul, blessed is he who has none, but woe and grief to him who has it in embryo.

We become our own enemy when we are thrown out of balance by anger, hatred, grief, or any other intense emotion. We are for the time being obsessed by something alien.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.

Gentle time will heal our sorrows.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

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.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

Sorrow makes men sincere.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.