Sadness Grief Quotes
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Sadness Grief Quotes & Sayings
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What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
— Charles Bukowski
Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this? — William Shakespeare
And doth it give me such a sight as this? — William Shakespeare
Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.
— David Nicholls
Sadness creeping from the shadows will get less and less until it crushes her no more than a petal might her breath.
— Nicola Morgan
The heart's smiles help wipe away the soul's tears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Either way, the view stabbed its way into his chest, as if it were trying to finish him off before he even landed.
— Sere Prince Halverson
A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.
— William Shakespeare
May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.
— Herculine Barbin
Grief Changes shape but it never dies
— Keanu Reeves
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
— William Shakespeare
It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.
— John Fletcher
There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.
— Claire North
Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It's like a gift from the universe.
— Corey Ann Haydu
Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out ... though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.
— J.K. Rowling
Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.
— Flavia Weedn
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
— Peter Heller
Obsessive love wears down both its target and the obsessor.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?
— Cynthia Hand
Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same.
— Katherine McIntyre
If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.
— John Claypool
Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.
— Irvine Welsh
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
— Stephen Levine
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
Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.
— Germaine Greer
His absence is so big it's like he's there.
— Patrick Ness
Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.
— Anita Brookner
She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.
— Michelle Latiolais
So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
— Sergio Aragones
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
— Simon Van Booy
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
— William Shakespeare
Loss is an inevitable part of change.
— Sharon Weil
[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.
— Christine De Pizan
There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
— Jose N. Harris
Sometimes, hope is even harder to bear than grief.
— Claudia Gray
Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.
— T.L. Parker
I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad.
— Esther Earl
Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it.
— Santosh Kalwar
Cursed the crown that brought such grief to me
— J. Leigh Bralick
Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
I miss you with the very edge of my skin.
It winces in absence,
a giant muscle contracting. — Valentina Cano
It winces in absence,
a giant muscle contracting. — Valentina Cano
We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.
— Corey Ann Haydu
Grief alone can teach us what is man.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
— William Shakespeare
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
— William Hazlitt
The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)
— Jean Sasson
Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.
— Pablo Neruda
The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup. — Rumi
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup. — Rumi
On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.
— Helen Macdonald
Perfect joy could not be joy alone but must be a joy that somehow contains our past grief and sadness and longing.
— Amy Alznauer
Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn't care who was cut in the process.
— Katherine McIntyre
What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?
— Rachel L. Schade
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
— Stefan Kanfer
Time doesn't always heal all wounds.
— A.J. Darkholme
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
When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.
— Lisa Bedrick
Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness
— Johnny Rich
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 think sadness/grief turns off a certain part of your brain... maybe out of necessity... maybe for survival.
— Sean Patrick Flanery
I couldn't even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita's sadness.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
— Charlotte Bronte
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
He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.
— Doppo Kunikida
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
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
— Kohta Hirano
They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief
— Isabel Allende
Love does not always end well.
— Rachel L. Schade
I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.
— Katie McGarry