Quotes about grief
grief joy bereavement
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
grief hole-in-my-heart over-it
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. Jeanette Winterson
grief past greater
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.
grief years stones
I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones. Jennifer Weiner
grief silence suffering
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering. George Eliot
grief heart flesh
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. Geoffrey Chaucer
grief reflection blood
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
grief grateful eye
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you
grief feels
No one feels another’s grief... Franz Schubert
grief joy understanding
No one really understands the grief or joy of another. We always imagine that we are approaching some other, but our lines of travel are actually parallel.
grief joy world
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.
grief soul sorrow
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. George Herbert
grief losing-a-loved-one cry
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
grief humor angel
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a nation is firm, yet our wounds as a people are recent and unhealed and lead us to pray... This world he created is of moral design. Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance, and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn... Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities, nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth can separate us from God's love. George W. Bush
grief mind strongest
...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. George R. R. Martin
grief tears guilt
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
grief struggle fall
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
grief sadness mean
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room. Fernando Pessoa
grief young cures
Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young. Euripides
grief past love-is
Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
grief loss land
What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
grief yield
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. Francis Bacon
grief people hopeless
The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. Gideon Welles
grief may disappearance
There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. Harriet Martineau
grief years grows
There are griefs which grow with years. Harriet Beecher Stowe
grief heart giving
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms. Homer
grief sorrow tears
It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me. Ignatius of Loyola
grief men limits
What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?. Horace
grief joy morrow
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
grief disease accents
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
grief funeral littles
Hired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true
grief grieving wish
If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.
grief firsts emotion
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.