Grief Quotes

• The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

  

  Candy Lightner
  • Grief

• I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Helping
  • Blame
  • Horrible

• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  

  Dally Messenger
  • Divorce
  • Loyalty
  • Intention

• It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sweet
  • Tears
  • Sorrow

• There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

  

  Sappho
  • House
  • Grief
  • Muse

• Gently - so have good men taught - Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide Into the new; the eternal flow of things, Like a bright river of the fields of heaven, Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Men
  • Death
  • Heaven

• You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Live
  • Difficulty

• To those who feel defeated and downtrodden, look to the early hours of the day for your rescue...Shadows of yesterday's grief melt in the rays of early morn's opportunity.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Opportunity
  • Feels
  • Shadow

• The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

  

  Herodotus
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Human

• When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark sense.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • People
  • Sense
  • Grief

• He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Instrument
  • Vengeance
  • No Reason

• One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

  

  Sophocles
  • Grief
  • Escape
  • Troubles

• Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

  

  Candy Lightner
  • Feelings
  • Persons
  • Grieving

• The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.

  

  Andrew Taylor
  • Children
  • Belief
  • Grief

• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

  

  Egerton Brydges
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Glory

• He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stars
  • Grief
  • Transform

• Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Grief
  • Loves
  • Grave

• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Universe
  • Grief
  • Reflection

• We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffering
  • Interests
  • Occasion

• One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Places
  • Came
  • Homesick

• Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Grief
  • Tied

• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Moral
  • Perspective
  • Suicide

• Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

  

  George Eliot
  • Grief
  • Love Is
  • Anguish

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