Grief Quotes
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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
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Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
Lord Byron
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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
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And when Bëor lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
Catherynne M. Valente
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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
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The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.
Candy Lightner
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Seneca the Younger
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The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.
Herodotus
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Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.
Courtney Milan
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There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
George Eliot
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Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.
Neil Abramson
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Sue Grafton
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
William Osler
