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Happiness can be a cruel thing in the face of someone else's grief. — Sasha Gould

Grief, she thought. It's a strange and a misunderstood emotion. — Anne Rice

Life when it ends is still alive, memories are the celebration of what it meant. Grieving is that part, our soul, that can't easily say goodbye — S.L. Northey

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. — Sophocles

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. — C.S. Lewis

I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage. — Lisa Schroeder

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. — Seneca The Younger

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

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

Come in! come in !' he sobbed.
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last! — Emily Bronte

But cemeteries are like mousetraps for memories, catching grief by the tail before it knows what's what. — Jennifer E. Smith

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

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting. — Anita Shreve

It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief. — Durgesh Satpathy

One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. — William Shakespeare

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

My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world. — V.S. Naipaul

Now, what's stirring in this murky sea of complexity and foolishness is an almost suffocating need to breathe fresh history. — Laurie Perez

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Grief is a powerful thing, and sometimes, if it's ignored, we can become lost in it. — Emiko Jean

The depth of one's grief equals the depth of one's love. — Marty Rubin

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower. — Emma Lazarus

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. — C.S. Lewis

Grief can choke you. It's dangerous, something else you have to beat. — Lauren Kate

I had no idea if the photos [of Osama bin Laden's dead body] would ever be made public, and I didn't care. — Mark Owen

C. S. Lewis wrote, No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — Brene Brown

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand. — Flavia Weedn

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face. — Julius Lester

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. — Stevie Smith

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. — Sophie Swetchine

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

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy. — Fran Drescher

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That's not the way life was supposed to go. — John Eldredge

In life there is not time to grieve long. — T. S. Eliot

What's here doesn't please you,
what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides — Anne Carson

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a wonderful cocktail. — Susanne Bier

The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope. — Mary Jo Bang

The loss of one's self is the hardest to bear — S.L. Northey

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector. — C.S. Lewis

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

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive. — Alex George

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

In a way," I told Peggy, "it's like the grief has been covered over with some — Anne Tyler

Grief has pushed us apart like repelling magnets: no matter how hard we try to reach each other, there's a gulf between us that we just can't bridge. — Louise Jensen

Do you know what it's like to be blessed with someone so special, to love them so much it hurts, and then have them taken from you forever? — Kim Holden

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. — Stephen King

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

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. — Tryon Edwards

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

Now courting's a pleasure, and parting is grief, but a false-hearted lover is worse than a thief! — Lee Smith

For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering. — Katie Ashley

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him. — C.S. Lewis

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck. — Mark Slouka

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life. — P.D. James

your body doesn't know the difference between physical pain and emotional pain. That's why grief, if left unchecked, can eventually kill you. — Mary Calmes

It's cruel, maybe, but it's hard to sympathize with grief when it's over someone who just tried to kill you. — Chris Kyle

Pak Karman hugged his wife's gravestone tightly. "You left without saying farewell!" The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light. — Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

Surviving makes other people's tears unbearable. You might drown in them. — Marceline Loridan-Ivens

There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is. — Lisa Samson

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water
if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under. — Susanna Kearsley

Apparently PTSD and grief flunked out of the same charm school; neither of them seems to know when it's cool to drop by. — Mishell Baker

Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief. — V.S. Naipaul

I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live. — Karen Cecil Smith

as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son. — Cath Crowley

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

There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash. — Laura A. Lord

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

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere. — Petrarch

There's only so much room for life and death
in our world. One must be traded for the other. — Will Bly

Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies. — Terry Pratchett

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

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. — Dean Koontz

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

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love? — Gwen Harwood

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

Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it's incurable. I've just learned to live with it. — Sandra Brown

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. — David LaChapelle

Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss. — Alexander Pushkin

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? — C.S. Lewis

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes. — James Wolcott

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but ... he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad. — Anne Ursu

Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving. — Billy Graham

If you asked me, denial was the best stage of grief. If prompted, the Wicked Queen's mirror would definitely say it was the fairest of them all. — Laurel Ulen Curtis

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

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

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

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

Time is the only thing that will heal this, and even that will only lessen the grief. There's nowhere left to run; nowhere left to hide. — Doug Cooper

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

Rumors alone can cause his family grief. It just isn't fair to compromise a person's reputation. — Mary Ellis

There's no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence. — Jay McLean

Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. — Jodi Picoult

Here's the truth: Who is spared love is spared grief. — David Mitchell

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. — Terence

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard. — Mark Slouka

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. — S.J. Watson

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good grief, this guy had a sleeping rug on his chest. — S.M. Reine