Grief Quotes

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now a...

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of wh...

My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ Tha...

Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...

She looked around for a place to be. A small place. The closet? ... It was both small and bright, an...

Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like do...

All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow...

Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his compa...

The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. Th...

That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disag...

People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philos...

Perhaps ... To R.A.L.Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,And I shall see that still the skies ...

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave ...

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I thin...

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with gu...

I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facin...

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he w...

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her ag...

I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had beco...

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like s...

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which loo...

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not ...

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something tak...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was ...

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing t...

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now again...

Gently the waves would break (Lily heard them in her sleep); tenderly the light fell (it seemed to c...

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

Walk openly, Marian used to say. Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast ...

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I w...

It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou...

A poor old Widow in her weedsSowed her garden with wild-flower seeds;Not too shallow, and not too de...

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers ...

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief un...

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absen...

In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Somet...

I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,...

The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church...

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of r...

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamen...

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind ...

Grief is itself a med'cine.

But this time as soon as he moved she began to fade. He stopped at once, not breathing again, motion...

What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Somethin...

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin...

Surprised by joy- impatient as the WindI turned to share the transport-- Oh! with whomBut thee, deep...

The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someon...

What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to ...

Grief is a disease. We were riddled with its pockmarks, tormented by its fevers, broken by its blows...

She did not know it, but she was actually in despair at the poverty of human emotions. Was it not ir...

Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his ...

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...

it [In Memoriam] expressed exactly the nature of her own shock and sorrow, the very structure and sl...

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

In this quiet place on a quiet streetwhere no one ever finds usgently, lovingly, freedom gives back ...

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

If itWere lighter touchThan petal of flower restingOn grass, oh still too heavy it were,Too heavy!

Three grey women walk with me Fate and Grief and Memory. My fate brought grief; my grief must be Wit...

The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep...

Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain...

Not thou, White rose, but thy Ensanguined sister is The dear companion of my heart's Shed blood.

Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you ...

I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying "This, too, shall pass," For a tim...

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its cle...

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

The human capacity for grief. It just isn't capable of providing an adequate emotional response once...

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he...

You are never lost in sorrow, it seems to me, ever. You do know the way. In fact, you don't think th...

Valentine reposes within the walls of Paris, and to leave Paris is like losing her a second time.""M...

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...

There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers ...

Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a...

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would rela...

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronge...

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp h...

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone a...

Someday you will wake up feeling 51 percent happy and slowly, molecule by molecule, you will feel li...

Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular cata...

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itsel...

She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she look...

Her marble tears run down her marble face.A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.Who has no w...

Grief and rage--you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out wit...

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news i...

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you wil...

If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly b...

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th...

The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bor...