Grief Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Grief
Grief Quotes & Sayings
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What I want to know is how you go on when you look aroundand don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
Yes, I have often battled Grief. / Both of us used our teeth.
— Sherman Alexie
I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage.
— Lisa Schroeder
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Courage can be just as infectious as fear.
— Alice Miller
I guess it takes one to know one, and two can play that game.
— Siobhan Davis
The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.
— Lynda Cheldelin Fell
Dropping into a thorn bush can lead to no end of grief.
— Mark Lawrence
The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.
— Drew Karpyshyn
All she knew was that whatever and whoever climbed out of that abyss of despair and grief would not be the same person who had plummeted in.
— Sarah J. Maas
It never ends, the bruiseof being — Kevin Young
She knows by now that grief is about endurance, understanding over and over that the person you loved is not coming back.
— Joan Wickersham
In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.
— Suheir Hammad
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
— George Eliot
It made me wonder if there is much difference in our hearts between love and grief. they both have a yearning that seems unable to be satisfied.
— Suzanne Kelman
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
There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.
— Wasif Ali Wasif
Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.
— Mark Epstein
Grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.
— George R R Martin
Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.
— Terry Pratchett
A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.
— Vironika Tugaleva
For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan
Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
— Anne Carson
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
— Arthur W. Pink
I should be scared, but I am far too excited to let in any fear.
— Aimee DuFresne
Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings.
— George R R Martin
Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hyperbole comes easily to us. To find measured prose and even tone in the midst of aching grief was tough.
— Maithili Rao
They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.
— Sebastian Junger
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
Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn't care who was cut in the process.
— Katherine McIntyre
When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream.
— Christina Rasmussen
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
— Thornton Wilder
Besides it's as nothing to the death of a child. He doesn't mind telling you his faith was sorely tried. There's no grief like a parent's.
— Eimear McBride
In childbirth grief begins.
— Euripides
It was the meanest moment of eternity.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don't know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.
— Kate McGahan
There is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.
— Caitlin Thomas
A healing heart has no time frame.
— Nikki Rowe
In order to heal, you have to first be broken.
— Renee Dyer
What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
— Rachel L. Schade
No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
— Ogden Nash
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving.
— Alexandra Fuller
Surviving makes other people's tears unbearable. You might drown in them.
— Marceline Loridan-Ivens
God didn't design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
— Shannon L. Alder
What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.
— Denise Jaden
Good is that darkening of our lives,Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
— Joseph Addison
There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise.
— Cheryl Strayed
I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
— George Eliot
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
— Renae Jones
The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it's incurable. I've just learned to live with it.
— Sandra Brown
Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss. — Alexander Pushkin
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
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
— Samuel Johnson
It was the first time in years I didn't wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.
— Ally Carter
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.
— Mike Mills
To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.
— Marie Bashkirtseff
I leave my parents here behindAnd all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell
I'm gone with love away. — George Moses Horton
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
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
— Cormac McCarthy
My grief had become a thick scab; I picked at it from time to time, but mostly I left it alone. I didn't want to know what was underneath.
— Marshall Thornton
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
— Stefan Kanfer
The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
— William Shakespeare
The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?
— Philip K. Dick
Grief is what tells you who you are alone.
— Gail Caldwell
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
Love is a powerful force. There is nothing in this world, no other energy, as powerful as the force of genuine, unconditional love.
— Susan Barbara Apollon
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
— Henry Roth
If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift.
— Eavan Boland
The answer to most prayers is no.
— Alex George
Time doesn't always heal all wounds.
— A.J. Darkholme
I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.
— Walter Mosley
Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.
— Susan Mallery
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
— Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Life, oblivious to his grief, continued
— Julie Orringer