Grief Quotes

Grief makes one hour ten.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

In life there is not time to grieve long.

No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.

She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief.

Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

To mourn, perhaps, is simply to prolong a posture of astonishment.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.

No one feels another's grief.

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

No grief reaches the dead.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief.