Shared Grief Quotes

#1. But sometimes words are the only hands
we have to touch a bruised memory
or cleanse a wound that never healed
or lift a body we carried for years
at last to the pyre of shared grief

Fred Dings

#2. 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

#3. Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

Matt Chandler

#4. After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.

Roxane Gay

#5. This was not a loss that could be shared. Grief was a place every person had to go alone, a lonely country populated by mistakes and a futile desire to turn back time for an impossible do-over.

Vicki Pettersson

#6. The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.

Roald Dahl

#7. Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.

Niels Bohr

#8. Everyone's pain is relative. We've learned how to deal with grief, because we've had to. But Bree hasn't. And our grief was shared, because we all felt it at the same time. She had to deal with hers alone.

Kate Lattey

#9. But I understood, now, that we don't live only for ourselves. We're connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion.
I learned that even when we're going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#10. To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.

Bell Hooks

#11. Cersei always resented being excluded from power on account of her sex.

George R R Martin

#12. The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the hopeful girl I would never be again.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

Henry R. Luce

#14. Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#15. I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.

Laura Schlessinger

#16. I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright.

Tom Rob Smith

#17. One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.

Lynn Austin

#18. Not only had my brother disappeared, but
and bear with me here
a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.

John Corey Whaley

#19. When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

Elvis Presley

#20. If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

Sophie Swetchine

#21. I swiftly realised how grief sorts out and realigns those around the griefstruck; how friends are tested; how some pass, some fail. Old friendships may deepen through shared sorrow; or suddenly appear lightweight.

Julian Barnes

#22. Grief shared was grief lessened.

Karen Marie Moning

#23. Change and loss and sadness and grief are the shared lot of all human beings ... we are all making our way from one end of life to the other hoping
for whatever intervals of time we can manage it
to feel safe and content and strong and at ease. [p.40]

Sylvia Boorstein

#24. Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of shared and unmitigated love, alleviates all disconsolation.

Michelle Franklin

#25. If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

Mas Oyama

#26. The grief you feel is parallel to the love you've shared. Those who love deeply, hurt deeply too. But if they don't let fear get in the way, they chance to gain all the beauty this life has to offer. He

Kimberly Krey

#27. Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

#28. That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

Eugene H. Peterson

#29. Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

R.A. Salvatore

#30. There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure - the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#31. We get a successful television series or something, and next season they give you less time and less money, which is something I've never really understood. That doesn't happen with Game of Thrones.

Charles Dance

#32. To leap into it and hold on, connecting everything,

Mary Oliver

#33. Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

C.S. Lewis

#34. Karaoke divides humanity into two groups: those who don't want to sing and shouldn't be compelled, and those who do and shouldn't be allowed.

Dennis Vickers