Grief Quotes

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

  

  Candy Lightner
  • Grief

• 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
  • Music
  • Sing
  • Relief

• Here was life, gently reminding her that she could care again. That her grief was allowed, but so was her joy.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Care

• But, really, grief left a hole in you, and while you healed around the hole, you never didn't have it. A piece of you was gone. You couldn't heal something that wasn't there.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Grief
  • Heal
  • Hole

• grief is an illness I can't recover from.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Grief
  • Illness

• We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" to be moved. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Feelings
  • Emotion
  • Sadness

• Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Grief
  • Carry
  • Burdens

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Proud

• That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Words
  • Language
  • Grieving

• I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Smile
  • Grief
  • Push

• 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
  • Joy
  • Grief
  • Anxiety

• Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Things
  • End
  • Begin

• 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

• I don't recognise any of my emotions any more. There's no such thing as plain joy or grief. It's horror and relief and panic and gratitude all jumbled together.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Gratitude
  • Emotions
  • Panic

• What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

  

  Brenda Shaughnessy
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Grief

• 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
  • Men
  • Joy
  • Sorrow

• No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

  

  Michael Sheen
  • Matter
  • Difficult
  • Loss

• There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we "should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge." It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Grief
  • Vulnerability
  • Satisfy

• I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • Writing
  • Community
  • Desire

• Grief alone can teach us what is man.

  

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

• Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Women
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Flower
  • Achieve

• For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.

  

  Katie Ashley
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Tear

• Anger is so much easier than grief.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Grief
  • Anger

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