Top 100 Quotes About Grief
#1. Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
William Wycherley
#2. People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.
Alice Hoffman
#3. In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.
Tana French
#4. If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
Lucretius
#5. Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.
Anna Quindlen
#6. Few stories start with death. Often, it starts with grief.
Rin Chupeco
#7. Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.
Anna Akhmatova
#8. It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.
Meghan O'Rourke
#9. I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed by the knowledge that whatever my worst nightmare is, there is someone out there embittered enough to carry it out.
Teju Cole
#10. I was happy to know her in my small, formal, dependent way. And I felt a ravenous grief for nice boys who are too stupid to take care of themselves, and too dumb to remember to check the surrounding brush for snakes before settling down to sleep for the night.
John Darnielle
#11. Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
George R R Martin
#12. She placed a protective arm around him and drew him closer to her. Her expression was pensive, her lips drawn in a tight line and her brow furrowed. Kruger saw the shadow of grief pass briefly over her features.
Martin Marais
#13. The archaeology of grief is not ordered. It is more like earth under a spade, turning up things you had forgotten. Surprising things come to light: not simply memories, but states of mind, emotions, older ways of seeing the world.
Helen Macdonald
#14. Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.
Bill Vaughan
#15. I think sadness/grief turns off a certain part of your brain... maybe out of necessity... maybe for survival.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#17. What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.
Nancy Reagan
#18. But around her, the air was sad, somehow. And behind the smile in her eyes, the Grief was a fresh, shining blue. Because of a calamitous car crash. Because of a Joe-shaped hole in the universe.
Arundhati Roy
#20. As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don't hurt others.
Omar Khayyam
#21. They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.
Lynn Redgrave
#22. In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.
James Kenneth Stephen
#23. Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Elizabeth I
#24. Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience ... Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.
Dorothy Allison
#25. Closer,
it's all right. Touch the man of grief.
Do. Don't be afraid. My troubles are mine
and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.
Sophocles
#26. It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.
Lauren Groff
#27. I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.
Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.
Claire North
#28. Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.
Thomas De Quincey
#29. I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.
Meghan O'Rourke
#30. Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.
Thomas Golden Jr.
#31. There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
[Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#32. Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.
Adam Berlin
#33. I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about.
Alton Brown
#34. Don't be so sure,' Cassie said. 'We're fighting for Mother Earth. She has some tricks up her sleeves.'
'Good grief,' Marco said. 'Let's all buy Birkenstocks and go hug some trees.
Katherine Applegate
#35. Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.
Lauren Slater
#36. No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.
Alysia Reiner
#37. I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him ... I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens.
Jean Genet
#38. You were kinder to yourselves in your legend than we were," Karou continued. "We made ourselves out of grief. You made yourselves in your gods' image, and with a noble purpose: to bring light to the worlds."
"A black job we've done of it," he said.
Laini Taylor
#39. Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#40. When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann
#41. They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I
Kristin Hannah
#43. I will bear this grief, I will endure it. I will reach a point where it doesn't kick me down an abyss whenever I turn my back on it.
Jim Beaver
#44. People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.
Veronica Roth
#47. Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
Horace
#48. And in a mad trance
Strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings
We decay
Like corpses in a charnel
Fear & Grief
Convulse is & consume us
Day by day
And cold hopes swarm
Like worms within
Our living clay
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#49. Odin, not unlike Charlie Brown, sighed, "Good grief," then added, "Why are we going to let this, this, coward on our trip? What do you see in him that could make you want him to come along?
Dylan Callens
#50. One day I was particularly gloomy, and Jim asked me what the matter was. I told him my high school girlfriend (for all of two weeks) had broken up with me. He said, "Oh, that'll happen a lot." The knowledge that this horrid grief was simply a part of life's routine cheered me up almost instantly.
Steve Martin
#52. You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
John Lydon
#53. If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.
Jack Kornfield
#54. To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
Terence
#55. Time does not heal,
It makes a half-stitched scar
That can be broken and again you feel
Grief as total as in its first hour.
-Elizabeth Jennings
Kay Redfield Jamison
#56. There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.
Asa Don Brown
#57. Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
Plutarch
#58. We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie
Deborah Heiligman
#59. How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we actually find out when it comes to us?
Jim Beaver
#60. Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Upton Sinclair
#62. Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
Margaret Widdemer
#63. There's no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence.
Jay McLean
#64. I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.
Dexter Palmer
#67. They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the calm mid-heaven, as these, In wise majestic melancholy train, And watch the moon, and the still-raging seas, And men, coming and going on the earth.
Rupert Brooke
#68. Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.
Umberto Eco
#69. At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.
Pedro Meyer
#70. It's hard to make progress with grief.
Martin Amis
#71. The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.
Fauja Singh
#72. Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.
A.E. Housman
#73. 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
#74. Those who are born of grief give greatest delight to the outside world.
Franz Schubert
#75. I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.
Alan Moore
#76. Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#77. I'm falling forward with the force of two years of buried grief, the sorrow of ten thousand oceans finally breaking inside me-
I let it. I let my heart break.
Jandy Nelson
#78. It seemed like way too much work, cleaning up my grief.
Jennifer Brown
#79. Missing someone is a vague, unpleasant sensation, like gnawing anxiety. It isn't as concrete as grief, but it's just as pervasive and there's no escaping it.
Sue Grafton
#80. 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
#81. There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life.
Chris Cleave
#82. Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#83. It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.
Alain De Botton
#84. We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.
Justine Larbalestier
#85. River that must turn full after I stop dying
Song, my song, raise grief to music
Light as my loves' thought, the few sick
So sick of wrangling: thus weeping,
Sounds of light, stay in her keeping
And my son's face - this much for honor.
Louis Zukofsky
#86. 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
#87. GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.
Kennedy Ryan
#88. Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
Mike Mills
#89. Grief, she thought. It's a strange and a misunderstood emotion.
Anne Rice
#91. There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
#92. And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#95. It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Lady Gregory
#96. I don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief.
Marianne Williamson
#97. The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.
Jennifer James
#99. With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things are clearer earlier. Being young meant flailing around a lot, especially as I was trying to invent new shapes without a ton of models.
Laura Mullen
#100. There is a basic emotional spectrum from which we cannot and should not escape, and I believe that depression is in that spectrum, located near not only grief but also love. Indeed I believe that all the strong emotions
Andrew Solomon
