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