Grief Quotes

• Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Heaven
  • Eye
  • Cold

• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Life
  • Grief

• Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Eyes

• The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Violence
  • Grief

• When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • People
  • Depression
  • Grief

• Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Grief
  • Lazy
  • Vengeance

• While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Respect
  • Kindness
  • Honesty

• No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Marriage
  • Grief

• 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
  • May
  • Pain
  • Grief

• The turbulent lives of their entrepreneurial ancestors led to grief and angst and adventures, and as Sirhan is fond of observing, an adventure is something horrible that happens to someone else.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Adventure
  • Grief

• I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

  

  Alan Davies
  • Grief

• The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.

  

  Alice Hegan Rice
  • Grief
  • Leaves
  • Trace

• Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Depression
  • Grief

• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Grievance

• To those who see the magical surface of things, you are invisible.' Good grief. Will you still be able to see me?' He met her eyes in a way that made her shiver pleasantly. 'I see you in a great many ways. It would be hard to blind me in all of them.

  

  Emma Bull
  • Good
  • Great
  • Eyes

• Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people’s wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on ’em.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Good
  • Broken

• Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Grief
  • Changes
  • Shape

• 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
  • Grief

• Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Friendship

• No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • People
  • Reality
  • Joy

• While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Grief

• Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Moon
  • Sick

• Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Maybe some people have come to grief this way, but they are probably fewer than those who have fallen into the opposite error. One is apt to perish in politics from too much memory, Tocqueville wrote somewhere, with equal truth and greater insight.

  

  David Hackett Fischer
  • Greater
  • Opposite
  • Probably

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