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What pays for all this?""Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition. — Margaret Atwood
In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.
— Robert Goolrick
Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.
— George R R Martin
One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.
— Catherynne M Valente
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage.
— Lisa Schroeder
There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it's the endings we're unprepared for.
— Katherine Owen
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.
— Philemon
If that's the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You've numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.
— Brent Jones
But cemeteries are like mousetraps for memories, catching grief by the tail before it knows what's what.
— Jennifer E. Smith
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
— Lasse Hallstrom
Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.
— Shelley Ramsey
The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.
— Drew Karpyshyn
Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.
— William Shakespeare
Grief is the midwife of your capacity to be immensely grateful for being born.
— Stephen Jenkinson
Grief doesn't hit and run; it stays. and sometimes for a very long time.
— Adriana Trigiani
KING HENRY VI:Would I were dead, if God's good will were so;
For what is in this world but grief and woe? — William Shakespeare
Cry, child, for those without tears have a grief which never ends.
— Luis J. Rodriguez
I buried my grief for my son, not my memories, but my grief.
— Deborah Smith
For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
— Katie Ashley
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
— F. Sionil Jose
[Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.]
— Lauren Groff
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
Inspiration for survival, Motivation for revival!
— Sandra Toscano Huerta
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
— Margaret Deland
You're my phantom limb, Mouse. I keep looking for you. I forget. I feel stupid, Mouse. Haunt me, find me, come back from wherever you are. Be with me.
— Audrey Niffenegger
The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.
— Durgesh Satpathy
Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.
— John Cheever
The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.
— Tayari Jones
The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
— Maria Von Trapp
At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
— Pedro Meyer
I wished for someone to hold me up. Suddenly someone was there.
— Christie Watson
We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.
— Eugene Kennedy
I supposed we were more vulnerable to wondering. Grief did that to you. It made you wish for a life that wasn't yours. It made you dream.
— Bella Forrest
I think sadness/grief turns off a certain part of your brain... maybe out of necessity... maybe for survival.
— Sean Patrick Flanery
Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.
— Orson Scott Card
Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone else.
— Elizabeth Berrien
The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.
— Paul Gibbons
For me, adoption was grief in reverse.
— Jody Cantrell Dyer
But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
— Dennis Lehane
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
— Wendell Berry
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse. — John Donne
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
All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.
— Philip O Ceallaigh
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
— Miyamoto Musashi
I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,embracing the lost bouquet of your body,
and searching for the light of your closed eyes — Pablo Neruda
I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
— Abigail McCarthy
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)
— Jean Sasson
There's only so much room for life and deathin our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly
I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
Grief stays with a person for a long time.
— Audrey Couloumbis
I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.
— Elin Nordegren
For I shall learn from flower and leaf,That color every drop they hold,
To change the lifeless wine of grief
To living gold. — Sara Teasdale
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
— Margaret Anderson
When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream.
— Christina Rasmussen
For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan
Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best
— Benjamin Franklin
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
— Arthur W. Pink
There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.
— Kate Kerrigan
I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.
— Joan Didion
Good grief. They're like the freaking poster family for the NRA.
— Elisabeth Wheatley
Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.
— Kathryn Orzech
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
— Heinrich Heine
I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
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
By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.
— Eleanor Morse
Everything was a broken line for me in those days. I was slipped into the empty spaces between words.
— Betsy Cornwell
No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust exterior she was all butter grief and hunger.
— Dorothy Allison
Maybe that's what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.
— Sharon E. Rainey
sometimes I just want to sit in the same place forever because I don't have the energy for another day without Cal in it.
— Cath Crowley
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'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.
— Suzanne Johnson
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
— William Shakespeare
The one thing Andrew couldn't do for his son was to protect him from what he himself was, from the strange evolution and deep grief of his own life.
— Deirdre Madden
Grief is the price we pay for love.
— Elizabeth II