Grief Strength Quotes

#1. When the shadow of death blots out my joy
And erases the face of the sun
Give me strength to endure, hope to believe
That living and dying are one.

William Wallace

#2. Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God's strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.

Billy Graham

#3. But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Veronica Roth

#4. Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.

Jennifer Armintrout

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

Donovan

#6. I respect the hell out of her for how hard she's working to be okay. I just wish she'd let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.

Jasinda Wilder

#7. I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Kathryn Stockett

#8. Can you drown in grief? She turned away sharply, angry with her own frailty. She had no time for the luxury of self-pity.

George R R Martin

#9. Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don't know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.

Kate McGahan

#10. Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

Patti Davis

#12. She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.

Ann Brashares

#13. Believe in the strength of your own resolve.

Sandra T. Huerta

#14. 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

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

Shannon L. Alder

#16. The inanity of her remark infuriated him. 'Good grief don't you understand Janet? At this point I'm thoroughly delusional. I'm as mentally ill as it's possible to be. It's incredible that I can communicate with you at all. It's a credit to my ego-strength that I'm not at this point totally autistic.

Philip K. Dick

#17. I know it is difficult to believe in your own courage or fortitude when everything inside of you feels weak and shattered. But do not believe what you feel. You will not be easily broken.

Rachel L. Schade

#18. To know that I was known by a new living being, who had not existed until she was made in my body by my desire and brought forth into the world by my pain and strength - that changed me. My heart, which seemed to have had only loss and grief in it before, now had joy in it also.

Wendell Berry

#19. I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.

Markelle Grabo

#20. Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. I think grief is a step towards strength because it allows you to be porous and take everything in, and have it transform you. What will sit within you is despairing, but at least it's feeling. You're not numb. Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Carrie Brownstein

#22. You don't get over grief, you just get more used to it.

Susan Oakey-Baker

#23. Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

Oscar Wilde

#24. And when hope returns to us, it will be with a passion and power to match every ounce of this crushing despair and pain, every fiery shred of determination that carried us when hope failed. It will claim us with a courage that will make the goddess herself quake and doubt herself.

Rachel L. Schade

#25. And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of grief, and she doesn't know if she can handle it, because it really hurts, hurts her more than the razor ever could.

Julia Hoban

#26. Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies.

Terry Pratchett

#27. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Oivd

#28. Most kids grow sullen and angry when they're working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?

Laura Anderson Kurk

#29. History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.

Aberjhani

#30. I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength to face again.

Adam Silvera

#31. Secret, smug believers! God never gives you
more than you can bear, they like to say, as if
the strong should be punished for their strength:
We can bear it. So we got it.
But what about my baby? How weak does
a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?

Brenda Shaughnessy

#32. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

Carrie Jones

#33. There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief - and even death.

Priscille Sibley

#34. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

Jose N. Harris

#35. Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ...

Muse

#36. Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.

Jasinda Wilder

#37. I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

Elizabeth Berrien

#38. Did that mean she had not cared deeply for any of her husbands? I wondered. Or only that she was a woman of great strength, capable of overcoming grief, not once, but over and over again?

Diana Gabaldon

#39. Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.

William Shakespeare

#40. What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

Rachel L. Schade

#41. All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up.

Ursula K. Le Guin