Top 100 Good Grief Sayings

#1. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Quentin Bryce

Good Grief Sayings #3055
#2. I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.

Rick Bragg

Good Grief Sayings #10104
#3. A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

Nancy Gibbs

Good Grief Sayings #45304
#4. Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

Marcel Proust

Good Grief Sayings #49288
#5. I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage.

Lisa Schroeder

Good Grief Sayings #50353
#6. Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe that life is to be loved, it is a gift.

Madeleine L'Engle

Good Grief Sayings #71147
#7. A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good Grief Sayings #117189
#8. Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.

Joseph Joubert

Good Grief Sayings #120919
#9. 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

Good Grief Sayings #133029
#10. Out of the sighs a little comes,
But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
Before the agony; the spirit grows,
Forgets, and cries;
A little comes, is tasted and found good ...

Dylan Thomas

Good Grief Sayings #139419
#11. You won't do anyone any good if you drop dead of exhaustion," she said to Harper once. I won't do anyone any good if I don't, Harper imagined saying back. I'm not doing anyone any good, one way or another. But she didn't say it. It would've been grief talking, and it was unfair to unload her sadness

Joe Hill

Good Grief Sayings #165524
#12. I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Joyce Brothers

Good Grief Sayings #189764
#13. They had decided to renovate their way out of the grief. Neither of them was sure it was a good plan, but it was the only one they had. The alternative was to lie down and slowly pine away.

Camilla Lackberg

Good Grief Sayings #248481
#14. Snoopy (musing on his rooftop): Good Grief! Is it November already? My life is going by too fast. I think someone pushed the "Fast Forward" button.

Charles M. Schulz

Good Grief Sayings #252245
#15. 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

Good Grief Sayings #262650
#16. Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Kohta Hirano

Good Grief Sayings #316335
#17. Say what you like. Plutonium may give you grief for thousands of years, but arsenic is forever.

Terry Pratchett

Good Grief Sayings #327696
#18. It's not good to be alone when you feel bereft. It's better to be with people and share your grief, and not keep it locked up inside.
She said this dry-eyed, with not a tear, but somewhere deep inside her she was crying, screaming.

V.C. Andrews

Good Grief Sayings #348833
#19. The bitter scratch of his unshaven good-night kiss will always, for me, be the sensation of grief.

Tayari Jones

Good Grief Sayings #354240
#20. O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief
holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Good Grief Sayings #427002
#21. I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us ans new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about

N. T. Wright

Good Grief Sayings #459781
#22. I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.

Claire Bidwell Smith

Good Grief Sayings #466212
#23. Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong.

Richard Jefferies

Good Grief Sayings #468583
#24. I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

Hanif Kureishi

Good Grief Sayings #477832
#25. I'm in love with you."
"Good grief." She kept walking.

Tahereh Mafi

Good Grief Sayings #487132
#26. The world was horrible. But life continued. What is more, life's usual proportions stayed the same. The ratio of good and evil, grief and happiness, remained unchanged.

Sergei Dovlatov

Good Grief Sayings #517847
#27. That no journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Today was just a bad day, a kink in the road, to be traversed and survived.

Jojo Moyes

Good Grief Sayings #520526
#28. How much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

Louise Bogan

Good Grief Sayings #541014
#29. I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

Mary Schmich

Good Grief Sayings #545628
#30. Question me now about all other matters, but do not ask who I am, for fear you may increase in my heart it's burden of sorrow as I think back; I am very full of grief, and I should not sit in the house of somebody else with my lamentation and wailing. It is not good to go on mourning forever.

Homer

Good Grief Sayings #556251
#31. Don't mire up in self despair of your losses, learn from them and move on to other good things in life. Don't stop allowing the sunshine in because of the fear that winter will come and engulf the warmth. Hold it close to you to help you through those cold winter days.

Belinda Taylor On "Loss"

Good Grief Sayings #562483
#32. Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.

Richelle Mead

Good Grief Sayings #593729
#33. The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It is as if all that was good in me had hidden itself, and only what is horrid remains.

Leo Tolstoy

Good Grief Sayings #599171
#34. I whirl around, stare into his grimy,grief-stricken face. His face is beautiful and so good. How could I have believed he'd betray us?

Carrie Jones

Good Grief Sayings #631021
#35. How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Good Grief Sayings #635391
#36. Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?"
"Of course not."
"But he's ... "
"He's sweet," Molly insisted.
Dare snorted. "He's still listening.

Lori Foster

Good Grief Sayings #656954
#37. Golf and alcohol don't mix
And that's why I don't drink and drive
Because, good grief I'd knock out my teeth
And have to kiss my smile goodbye

Owl City

Good Grief Sayings #693003
#38. I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

Rolf Harris

Good Grief Sayings #704591
#39. I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having a good time, being unapologetic, and irreverent from a gay man.

Kesha

Good Grief Sayings #748751
#40. Mad people all live a long time - you know, every grief has its good side.

Ivan Turgenev

Good Grief Sayings #776222
#41. If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour.

George Eliot

Good Grief Sayings #802280
#42. Liv grabbed the cookie nearest her and broke it open.
"It's up to you to make your happy ending."
Liv stared at it a moment, rereading the words. Did it mean life? Because if it did, then Liv disagreed. Sometimes life was downright unfair. Bad things happened to good people.

Danika Stone

Good Grief Sayings #809682
#43. Good grief, this guy had a sleeping rug on his chest.

S.M. Reine

Good Grief Sayings #827186
#44. Good grief," said Merlin. "You look like the bastard child of
Dumbledore and David Bowie. No, sorry, Dumbledore and Ziggy
Stardust.

FayJay

Good Grief Sayings #828385
#45. I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

Andrew Sullivan

Good Grief Sayings #828480
#46. That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.

Ben Sherwood

Good Grief Sayings #828769
#47. There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Mike Mills

Good Grief Sayings #842751
#48. For trash and toys, And grief-engend'ring joys, What torment seems too sharp for flesh and blood; What bitter pills, Compos'd of real ills, Men swallow down to purchase one false good!

Francis Quarles

Good Grief Sayings #844371
#49. It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good Grief Sayings #868723
#50. To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.'
Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?'
He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

Emma Bull

Good Grief Sayings #873413
#51. My insides were chaotic with panic and grief, but that didn't matter - only the outside mattered right now. Putting on a good show was something I knew I had to master.

Stephenie Meyer

Good Grief Sayings #881138
#52. It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Mark Slouka

Good Grief Sayings #895778
#53. Proper mourning leaves one nothing to do but mourn, and I've concluded this isn't a good thing. Grief crowds in closely enough without the rest of life being shoved aside to make way for it.

Grace Burrowes

Good Grief Sayings #921697
#54. It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want something from someone, and chances are good you won't get it.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Good Grief Sayings #923652
#55. Grief is good ... it is a sign of how well we have loved.

Elizabeth Lesser

Good Grief Sayings #925567
#56. Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So

Walter Brueggemann

Good Grief Sayings #929810
#57. And I don't want his body touching something I wear. He'll contaminate it. (Sasha)
Oh, good grief, Sasha. Grow up. You're four hundred years old and you're acting like a whelp. It's not like he has cooties or anything. (Astrid)
Yes he does! (Sasha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good Grief Sayings #950601
#58. Oh, good Lord Jesus, I prayed, preserve me from this joking of God. Grief and trouble were all bad enough. But joking? It seemed altogether unfair, to me.

Judith Merkle Riley

Good Grief Sayings #969913
#59. The best way to hide your inner grief is to look good, act good, and pretend pain doesn't exist.

K.F. Breene

Good Grief Sayings #983993
#60. People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure - like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don't change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.

Josephine Humphreys

Good Grief Sayings #985881
#61. Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new; the eternal flow of things,
Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,
Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William C. Bryant

Good Grief Sayings #998830
#62. Grief is a private, internal thing. No one can say their pain is worse than yours because they don't know. So maybe it's not good to compare. Maybe it's better to talk to people who know you.

Anna Maxted

Good Grief Sayings #1009587
#63. 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

Good Grief Sayings #1018312
#64. As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I CAN'T READ, BUT I CAN THROW A FOOTBALL. Mr. Shunk's would read, I WISH I COULD TOSS YOU ALL ON AN ISLAND BY YOURSELVES. Dad's would read, I HATE MYSELF FOR NO GOOD REASON.

My Idea grows.

A.S. King

Good Grief Sayings #1035315
#65. If you shouldn't blame yourself for minor things you did or didn't do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Mark Rogerson

Good Grief Sayings #1040701
#66. That might be the problem. A lot of the good stuff is from the past. The Jonas Brothers, High School Musical, our shared grief. Our friendship is based on memories. What do we have now?

Angie Thomas

Good Grief Sayings #1046138
#67. Good grief, Fury, warn me if you're going to jump in here naked. (Bride)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good Grief Sayings #1087379
#68. The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.

Paul Lowe

Good Grief Sayings #1103819
#69. It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

Andy Stanley

Good Grief Sayings #1112565
#70. Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody.

Hillary Clinton

Good Grief Sayings #1118871
#71. Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Good Grief Sayings #1131957
#72. Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

Jandy Nelson

Good Grief Sayings #1142593
#73. No one knows what to do with me now that I'm alive. There's no protocol for how to treat someone who comes back from the dead. There are so many books about grief and loss, about saying good-bye to the people you love. But there is no book about taking back that good-bye.

Amy Reed

Good Grief Sayings #1145594
#74. Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida ... Good grief ... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole.

Wanda Sykes

Good Grief Sayings #1159845
#75. Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!"
"Who's Madge?" Sticky asked.
"Her Majesty the Queen!

Trenton Lee Stewart

Good Grief Sayings #1169571
#76. Good grief. They're like the freaking poster family for the NRA.

Elisabeth Wheatley

Good Grief Sayings #1176878
#77. Ack! I'm blind. Old man dick alert. Cover it up. She protested with her mouth, yet her eyes remained locked on his bare body. He swelled up to an even mightier size. Good grief. Just how big does that thing get? Should I duck and cover before it explodes?

Eve Langlais

Good Grief Sayings #1185474
#78. Don't complain about autumn. Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Good Grief Sayings #1194699
#79. Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief."
The taller one ran his finger down his sword. "A good plan. But remember, the king's instructions were to keep them alive."
-from Eragon, Chapter Title: The Ra'zac's Revenge.

Christopher Paolini

Good Grief Sayings #1207165
#80. Know to be a safe port in a storm? Flora suddenly remembered her dream, how warm William Spiver's hand had felt in her own. She blushed. Whom did she trust? Good grief, she trusted William Spiver.

Kate DiCamillo

Good Grief Sayings #1223087
#81. Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don't share it there's a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.

Fredrik Backman

Good Grief Sayings #1230433
#82. 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

Good Grief Sayings #1241909
#83. Grief can be an incredible source of energy. For good.

Peter Gould

Good Grief Sayings #1274881
#84. 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

Good Grief Sayings #1320448
#85. A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole."
"In the Shape of Shep

Eileen Granfors

Good Grief Sayings #1347409
#86. I get recognised a lot. If there are a load of school kids together, they'll shout at me, but I'm quite good at giving grief back. I give as good as I get.

Konnie Huq

Good Grief Sayings #1366634
#87. Good grief, baby, people don't agree with the Klan, but they certainly don't try to prevent them from puttin' on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.

Harper Lee

Good Grief Sayings #1390312
#88. She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

Alicia G. Ruggieri

Good Grief Sayings #1414440
#89. Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

Megan Hart

Good Grief Sayings #1431284
#90. Oh, good grief! I've never had a man pick me up before and not grunt like he's dying. I'm in heaven. Marry me, Ash, please! (Pam)
I would say yes, but I come with more baggage than even Samsonite can cover. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Good Grief Sayings #1465751
#91. They believe Miles can read it," she said. "Good grief. They must be completely illiterate
or desperately gullible
or
"
"French," said Mr Carsington.

Loretta Chase

Good Grief Sayings #1479755
#92. God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

C.S. Lewis

Good Grief Sayings #1495113
#93. It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

Richard Sibbes

Good Grief Sayings #1522350
#94. Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution.

Mat Luthfi

Good Grief Sayings #1525886
#95. No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

Jojo Moyes

Good Grief Sayings #1543095
#96. Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us to resemble them. You find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, succor in our distress.

Anne-Therese De Marguenat De Courcelles

Good Grief Sayings #1552491
#97. Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.

Miyamoto Musashi

Good Grief Sayings #1552621
#98. Good grief. Are you flirting with me?"
"Honey, my intentions are way past flirting."
"Your intentions could get you a knee in the groin."
Nick grinned. "At least your mind's on the right body part.

Janet Evanovich

Good Grief Sayings #1564841
#99. But it's no good preaching to a grief-stricken soul. And it can actually cause much harm. God is long-suffering in His patience, however, and infinite in His kindness,

Siri Mitchell

Good Grief Sayings #1566459
#100. Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

Plutarch

Good Grief Sayings #1573452

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