Grief Quotes

In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dyi...

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never di...

I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years a...

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a ...

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much hu...

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some sens...

That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dyingI went closer,and I did not die.Sur...

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel i...

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man w...

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave...

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A sc...

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his ...

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pai...

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever s...

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and ...

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, w...

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or somethin...

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?""Then what...

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your ...

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, ...

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. Wh...

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...

The air felt different in my lungs. The world no longer looked the same. You change and then you cha...

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you ...

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how fill...

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and kill...

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is...

If suddenly you do not exist,if suddenly you no longer live,I shall live on.I do not dare,I do not d...

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example,'The night is shatteredand the blue stars s...

I will die kissing your mad cold mouth,embracing the lost bouquet of your body,and searching for the...

I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that ...

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transfor...

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to...

We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?

Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that...

Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel gri...

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer...

Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...

But Balthamos couldn't tell; he only knew that half his heart had been extinguished. He couldn't kee...

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler.... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to...

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a who...

The sea of grief has no shores, no bottom; no one can sound its depths.

At first I thought he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking, but then he put his palms on ...

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on...

Can you imagine how lonely she must have felt when she received that phone call? Your lover has just...

The one so loved that a single lyreraised more lament than lamenting women ever did;and that from th...

so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone w...

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the stran...

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature say...

Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical cit...

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

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

The only way out is through

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...

Grief and anger shrink my world, and I resent this. They seem to paralyze my memory of happier times...

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Wor...

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about ...

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and...

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no n...

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we...

Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?"What do you mean?"I ate ...

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At...

He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and th...

He felt split in two, one crazy man eating hair and one rational man watching a crazy man eat hair. ...

I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the...

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive.

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

I couldn’t even tell if I had any sadness of my own, because I was so full of Abuelita’s sadness.

Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their gr...

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.