Grief Quotes
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca the Younger
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Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave.
Lord Byron
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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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The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.
Candy Lightner
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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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Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Seneca the Younger
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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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Grief is an expression that you loved well.
Elizabeth Lesser
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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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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
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grief is an illness I can't recover from.
Sue Grafton
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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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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
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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
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There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.
Mike Mills
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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.
Victor Hugo
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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
