Grief Quotes
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But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.
Kay Redfield Jamison
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
Taya Kyle -
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
Petrarch -
There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
Irving Kirsch -
Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Dean Inge -
When he died I had a moment of grief that lasted about five minutes. It was very intense, then never again. Not because I forced myself, but I think it was because he caused us too much pain.
Nastassja Kinski
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel Johnson -
Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
Elizabeth McCracken -
That grief is light which can take counsel.
Seneca the Younger -
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
Anthony Rapp -
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.
C. S. Lewis
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We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
Eileen Wilks -
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
John Woolman -
He had no idea that grief was a reward. That it only came to those who were loyal, to those who loved more than they were capable of.
Nami Mun -
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
William Faulkner -
Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
Barton Booth -
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
Inga Muscio
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We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
Mary Astell -
Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief of his mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
Mehmet Oz -
When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.
Rachel Bloom