Grief Quotes

• Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Mind
  • Grief
  • Ring

• In coming to terms with the newly dead, I seem to have agitated the spirits of the long dead. They were stirring uneasily in their graves, demanding to be mourned as I had not mourned them when they were buried. I was plunged into retroactive grief for my father, and could no longer deny, though I still tried, the loss I'd suffered at the death of my mother. ... Was it possible ... that one could mourn over losses that had occurred more than half a century earlier?

  

  Eileen Simpson
  • Dead
  • Spirits
  • My Father

• When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

  

  Richard Lovelace
  • Liberty
  • Draught
  • Steep

• As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Grief
  • Goodbye

• Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Darkness
  • My Mother
  • My Friends

• Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.

  

  Erin Kelly
  • Grief
  • Torture
  • Splinter

• There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Grief
  • Drunkenness

• 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

• Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Existence
  • Sorrow
  • Fairytale

• 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

• 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

• And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

  

  Candace Wheeler
  • Found
  • Loss
  • Given

• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Great
  • Grief

• Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Grief
  • Granduer

• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wonder
  • Grief
  • Unhappy Person

• Grief alone can teach us what is man.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Man
  • Teach
  • Grief

• Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

  

  John Podhoretz
  • Memories
  • Grief

• Grief is as contagious as a yawn.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Grief
  • Contagious

• 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

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

  

  Egerton Brydges
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Glory

• When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Country
  • Support
  • Vote

• If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

  

  Sophocles
  • Grief
  • Sorrow
  • Raise

• I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Grief

• Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

  

  John Cho
  • People
  • Funny
  • Grief

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