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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

All the love you ever gave is waiting for you there at Rainbow Bridge. — Kate McGahan

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

Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow. — Carl Jung

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away. — Libba Bray

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

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. — Richard Adams

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

I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again. — Paige Harbison

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest. — William Shakespeare

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead. — Brom

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

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?. — Horace

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

Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn't last for long — Durgesh Satpathy

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

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. — Xenophon

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. — Sappho

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good. — Jandy Nelson

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

Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. — Stephen King

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

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. — Menander

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 death
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies. — John Ford

For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. — Isaac Watts

I feel no grief for being called something
which
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

Why was his grief more powerful than his love? Why couldn't he find it within himself to fight back?
Why am I not enough to live for? — Libba Bray

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

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

Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution. — Mat Luthfi

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

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. — Steve Almond

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. — Faraaz Kazi

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

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very. — Jon Hamm

There was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief. — Richard Rhodes

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