Top 100 Grief Is Quotes
#1. Grief is like that sometimes. Like water, it finds any opening, forces itself through any crack until it explodes, inexorable.
Cody McFadyen
#2. Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
Simon Van Booy
#3. Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.
Meghan O'Rourke
#4. Moving on, as a concept, is for stupid people, because any sensible person knows grief is a long-term project. I refuse to rush. The pain that is thrust upon us let no man slow or speed or fix.
Max Porter
#5. Grief is just so scary ... If we finally begin to cry all those suppressed tears, they will surely wash us away like the Mississippi River. That's what our parents told us. We got sent to our rooms for having huge feelings. In my family, if you cried or got angry, you didn't get dinner.
Anne Lamott
#7. Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
Margaret Deland
#8. Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.
Brom
#9. If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
Sophie Swetchine
#10. But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.
Alexandre Dumas
#11. Grief is terror, in its most undiluted form.
Matt Haig
#12. Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
Jodi Picoult
#13. The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their neglect.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#14. Grief is not a pleasure, but it makes me remember, and I am grateful.
Abigail Thomas
#15. To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus
#16. She understood that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.
Ann Hood
#18. Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.
Nicole Mones
#19. Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
Veronica Roth
#20. I wasn't showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment
Sarah Rees Brennan
#21. Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...
Thomas Lynch
#22. What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
Gail Caldwell
#23. as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from the here and now.
David Foenkinos
#24. Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost.
David Nicholls
#25. That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.
Jane Porter
#26. All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly ... consuming ...
John Geddes
#27. But I need to remember that the grief is the settlers' as well. They too will never walk in a tallgrass prairie where sunflowers dance with goldfinches. Their children have also lost the chance to sing at the Maple Dance. They can't drink the water either.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#28. From Laurie Colwin: Lovely writing! About grief she writes: I realized that grief is metabolic: it crawls through you like a disease and takes your energy away. Then it gathers and hits like a sudden migraine, like being hit by a car, like having a large, flat rock hurled at your chest.
Laurie Colwin
#29. Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is ... is it not yet enough?
C.S. Lewis
#30. Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson
#31. Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Greg Bear
#32. 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
#33. I'm human, we all are - all doctors are - and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you'd get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#34. Grief is a mystery to be lived through, not a problem to be solved,
Emily Giffin
#35. But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.
Cathy Lamb
#36. It had been many months since I'd shed tears for Tomaso, but grief is like that. It's not a continuous process; it comes in waves. You can keep it at bay for a time, like a dam holding back a lake, but them something triggers an explosion inside of you, shattering the wall and letting loose a flood.
Paul Adam
#37. She knows by now that grief is about endurance, understanding over and over that the person you loved is not coming back.
Joan Wickersham
#39. my own name. Do you know what Queen Elizabeth wrote after 9/11? "Grief is the price we pay for love.
Heidi Joy Tretheway
#40. We live, oblivious of the reality that grief is an incessant stream that flows into our life time and again and brings all those boulders back, which we had discarded in the hope of never meeting again.
Balroop Singh
#41. 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
#42. Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
C.S. Lewis
#43. Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#44. (Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
Laura Branigan
#45. Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.
Bridget Asher
#46. Melanie Klein wrote that children go through states of mind comparable to mourning, and that this early mourning is revived when grief is experience in later life.
Helen Macdonald
#47. Grief is like the wind. When it's blowing hard, you adjust your sails and run before it. If it blows too hard, you stay in the harbor, close the hatches and don't take calls. When it's gentle, you go sailing, have a picnic, take a swim.
Barbara Ascher
#48. When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#49. Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.
Victor Hugo
#50. [Grief] is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.
Max Porter
#51. I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart?
Sebastian Barry
#52. Moreover, as usual, she wasn't able to live in the moment. Maybe that's what grief is: a permanent disconnect from here and now. She looked at the games adults played and felt detached. It was easy to tell herself: "I'm not here.".
David Foenkinos
#53. Grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Sue Grafton
#54. Oh, well, you go to poor school." He gives a comic eye roll. "At rich school, we take notes on hundred-dollar bills using unicorn tears, and our grief is vastly different and more complex.
Delilah S. Dawson
#55. The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love
Hilary Stanton Zunin
#56. As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
Sam Harris
#57. Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
Meghan O'Rourke
#59. The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.
Candy Lightner
#60. Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#61. Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.
Thomas Lynch
#62. But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
Elizabeth Lesser
#63. Grief is an emotional rollercoaster.
You will have your ups and downs
and moments of terror
and brief moments of peace.
You can only go as fast
as the ride will take you.
Just remember:
It will end and you will be okay.
Kate McGahan
#65. Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams
#66. Grief is a gift, something you have to earn.
Peter Hoeg
#67. Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!
Albert Camus
#69. Loss is the absence of something we were once attached to. Grief is the rope burns left behind, when that which is held is pulled beyond our grasp.
Stephen Levine
#70. Grief is illness. You cannot breathe; you cannot walk or eat or sleep. The sickness is entire, the body and the spirit.
Zelda Popkin
#71. Joy mingled with sadness, even with grief, is the deepest human joy. It winds itself about the soul with indescribable sweetness, with a dim but unerring sense for what will some day be born of it.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#72. Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.
Lea Michele
#74. So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#75. He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
Lauren Oliver
#76. Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#77. Grief is not a feeling it is a capacity. It is not something that disables you, we are not on the receiving end of grief we are on the practising end of grief.
Stephen Jenkinson
#78. When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event ...
Maxim Gorky
#79. Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
Phil McGraw
#80. Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.
Earl A Grollman
#82. Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is short, the joy is long.
Thomas Cogswell Upham
#83. Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.
Plutarch
#84. Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Horace
#85. Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
Plutarch
#86. Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.
Vicki Harrison
#89. Grief is a powerful thing, and sometimes, if it's ignored, we can become lost in it.
Emiko Jean
#90. Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Anne Grant
#91. The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.
Jack Ketchum
#92. Alice looked at the sky and sniffed at the heavens. Night seemed to swallow her. It was true, then, her ancient, girlish understanding. Grief is like space walking. It is nothing terrestrial. Laws of gravity alter, and bodies tilt and float away.
Gail Jones
#93. But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery. Sometimes
Wendell Berry
#94. Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
Eli Attie
#96. Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were innocent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible.
Jane Rubietta
#97. Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.
Helen Humphreys
#98. The twilight hour comes: even my grief is swept away by the anonymity of life.
Montri Umavijani
#99. It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
Ovid
#100. Dying of grief is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is not evolutionarily feasible. If grief were that overwhelming, a species would simply be erased.
Jodi Picoult
