Grief Lessons Quotes

#1. What's here doesn't please you,
what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Anne Carson

#2. It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Mark Slouka

#3. It's like everyone has their own little recipe for happiness, but no one really seems all that happy.

Brent Jones

#4. Her wounds brought her a great source of power because they lived in the same place as her heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. 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

#6. We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#7. Be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Jodi Picoult

#8. He pondered his turmoil, wondering which he feared most - losing his father or being alone in the world. Both were inevitable. Neither could be stopped or slowed down. All he could do now was brace for impact.

Brent Jones

#9. The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.

Auliq Ice

#10. So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#11. You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Donovan

#12. I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.

Brent Jones

#13. There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again.

Nikki Rowe

#14. 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

#15. People come and go from our lives all the time. It's not our fault that people leave. The Universe is just making room for new people with new lessons.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#16. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.

Oprah Winfrey

#17. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#18. 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

#19. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Brent Jones

#20. No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

Cyril Connolly

#21. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.

Brent Jones

#22. You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale.

Melissa C. Walker

#23. Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way to let Happiness happen in your life in Abundance!

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#24. Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.

Durgesh Satpathy

#25. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.

Brent Jones

#26. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#27. 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

#28. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones

#29. The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

Gretel Ehrlich

#30. Life's pressure is equal to your resistance. Your grief has endless time. Your sadness is bottomless. Your worries are relentless. Your resentment is unquenchable. Your fears are unmovable. Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

Bryant McGill

#31. It feels like I'm stuck in one spot. It's been this way for a long time. I know you understand, but now you're moving on without me. And I - I'm not ready to be alone.

Brent Jones