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Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost. — David Nicholls

Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences. — Jennifer Armintrout

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? — Sebastian Barry

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. — Robert Frost

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's about believing two opposing ideas in your head at the same time: hope and grief. — Claire Fuller

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

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly. — Meghan O'Rourke

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link. — Johnny Rich

The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else. — Drew Karpyshyn

His mother was as frosty as the polar icecaps. His sister was gone. Who did he have that cared about him? Who would remind him that he mattered? — Sofia Grey

She knows by now that grief is about endurance, understanding over and over that the person you loved is not coming back. — Joan Wickersham

The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess. — John Green

That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support. — Yann Martel

We talk about how he and Leanne are doing knowing full well there is no sufficient answer.
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Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. — Melina Marchetta

I thought about how the smallest of things could set someone on a bustling fire when you didn't have the right shoulder to lean on. — Diyar Harraz

Somehow he's looked inside me and he's seen what lurks in there: that even in my grief, all I worry about is myself. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

One of the hardest things about losing someone that you love is that you have to allow yourself to seek and accept comfort in other areas of your life — Meg Donohue

What no one told me about grief is how lonely it is. No matter who else is mourning, you're in your own little cell. — Jodi Picoult

There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking. — Jane Fallon

Funerals seem less about comforting the souls of these dearly departed than about
comforting the people they leave behind. — Rin Chupeco

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. — Brent Sexton

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose. — Edith Wharton

When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable. — Sharon E. Rainey

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P.D. James

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

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief. — Benjamin Disraeli

There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn't learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart. — Kamila Shamsie

One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering. — Leslie A. Gordon

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. — Alice Hoffman

One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it. — J.P. Delaney

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. — Bono

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. — Gail Caldwell

She'd crawled into her grief and cocooned it around her, unable to care about anyone or anything - — Kristin Hannah

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow. — Meghan O'Rourke

The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson

The only predictable thing about grief is that it's unpredictable. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? — Jim Sheeler

I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive. — Michael Ignatieff

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world, he says softly. — Tahereh Mafi

What could you say about someone who walked daily into his grief and lived at the bottom of its hole and didn't even want to come out? — Marie Rutkoski

I don't know about the first steps in a geography of loss, and I know that it's unmapped. I know that we all have to go by ourselves. — Wayne Earl

Politics is about grievances.... Poetry is about grief. — Raymond Paul

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

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. — Martha Whitmore Hickman

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. — Esther Hicks

There is something embarrassing about someone else's grief. It is hard to know what to do around it. The right answer, always, is hugs. — Adam Gidwitz

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about. — Herman Melville

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled. — Veronica Roth

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings. — Delia Ephron

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for. — Brene Brown

One of the things about grief - I wouldn't generalise, because everybody responds to tragedies in different ways - but I had a huge amount of energy. — David Toop