Grief Quotes
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But there is no such man; for, brother, men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
Their counsel turns to passion, which before
Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
Charm ache with air and agony with words.
William Shakespeare
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In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.
Nicholas Sparks
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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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But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.
Bernice L. McFadden
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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
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Grief alone can teach us what is man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I leave my parents here behind
And all my friends to love resigned
'Tis grief to go, but death to stay
Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.
George Moses Horton
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Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.
Erin Kelly
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For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
Katie Ashley
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Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
William Shakespeare
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Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.
Mike Mills
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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
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He has been waiting for us, waiting in vain, and His fatherly heart was filled with grief. When He then sought to call us home through chastenings, we rebelled against Him and His actions and again refused to come home to the Father. What else should He do with us?
Basilea Schlink
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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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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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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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Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
Marianne Williamson
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Oh that it were possible, After long grief and pain, To find the arms of my true love, Around me once again.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep.
Carolyn Parkhurst
