Top 53 Best Grief Quotes
#1. All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.
Thomas Campion
#2. Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.
Frederick William Faber
#3. A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..
Paula Wall
#4. I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
Al Capone
#5. Much they would like to share their joy at some triumph or their grief at some overwhelming sadness, it's always best and safest to keep silent.
Paulo Coelho
#6. You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the two best gifts: softness and illumination. Every
Anne Lamott
#7. The previous owners left nothing of themselves here: no happiness, no grief, no pain. It is the best anyone can wish
for in a place to stay.
Rin Chupeco
#8. I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief
even the dogs were howling.
Sara Gruen
#9. Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on graves.
Kristina McMorris
#10. Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
Jeanie Jenny Cameron
#12. The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.
Kate McGahan
#13. I'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors
there are studies that show it
are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.
Jonathan Kellerman
#14. Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.
Ann Benjamin
#15. Teddy found himself thinking what a decent human being his father had been, the best of all the family really. The grief caught him unawares.
Kate Atkinson
#16. Anything I had to say seemed shallow beside the depth of his grief. Words are awkward tools at best, too blunt for delicate tasks.
Mark Lawrence
#18. Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution.
Mat Luthfi
#20. It is an extraordinary world - full of love, grief, coincidence - and we shall never understand it. We should never try to. We should only be grateful for it. I reckon we should love, breathe, and say all will be well and believe it. And we should share our best stories, as often as we can.
Susan Fletcher
#21. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Alexandre Dumas
#22. He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
Nina LaCour
#23. This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
Chris Cleave
#24. But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!
Still you are blest, compared with me!
Robert Burns
#25. Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear
don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.
Sophocles
#26. Grief is an ocean where the waves obey their own rhythm, their own tide, where we are just thrown about to stay afloat as best we can. Where there is in fact no guarantee that we will keep our heads above water.
Peter Watson
#27. The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.
Drew Karpyshyn
#28. I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.
C.J. Redwine
#29. Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way.
Chris Scofield
#30. Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.
Elizabeth Berrien
#31. He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
Charles Darwin
#32. He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
Donna Lynn Hope
#33. 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
#34. Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door.
Sandra Cisneros
#35. To get the best out of life here ... Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.
Philip Pullman
#36. He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she could with three.
Stella Gibbons
#37. The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#38. Whores, Anna once read, make the very best wives. They are accustomed to the varying moods of men, they keep their broken hearts to themselves, and easy women always ease through grief.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#39. I'm glad has promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-even the dogs are howling.
Sara Gruen
#40. Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
Barbara Kingsolver
#41. But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!
Robert Burns
#42. People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what local historians like to tell you.
Joanne Harris
#43. This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise
#44. The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn't recognize as griefs, because they came in what were supposed to be the best times of my life. No one whispered in my ear that the best times, the ones that change our lives, are woven with the thread of loss.
Anna White
#45. 'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
Meghan O'Rourke
#46. No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy ... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.
Franz Schubert
#47. By forty, is there anyone who hasn't had to recognize that happiness, as understood by youth, is illusory? That the best one can hope for is an absence of too many tragedies and that the road through the inevitable grief be, if not smooth, then steady?
Robin Black
#48. I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best
Tobias Wolff
#49. 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
#50. Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.
Anne Lamott
#53. The best way to hide your inner grief is to look good, act good, and pretend pain doesn't exist.
K.F. Breene
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