Grief Quotes · Page 10

Grief and passion make a volatile mix.

— Marianne Curley

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

— Patanjali

There is no shortcut to grieving.

— Susan Sarandon

“Her only weapons were her tears.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

— Nicole Kidman

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

— Sam Kinison

“Adoption is grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

'eXpeCtaTioN is what gives sorrow…'

— Pradeep

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

— John Donne

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Be neither thrilled by joy nor broken by grief.”

— Kevin Keenoo

“Have you ever loved your murderer As you were coming back from the dead?”

— Jenim Dibie

“Pure, perfect sorrow is as impossible as pure and perfect joy.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

— Ben Marcus

“Great joy doesn't obliterate grief. Both can be encompassed at the same time.”

— Helen Brown

“If wars were declared by love, there would be no tears of sorrow, only tears of joy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

— Horace

Without the experience of trouble, calamity, grief,and adversity, you would not have courage, strength, joy, and patience.

— Nishan Panwar

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

— Chris Jordan

Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.

— Patti Smith

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

— S.J. Watson

Going through heartbreak can feel like being underwater when you need to breathe.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

— Ovid

“When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations And when Tragedy happens…

— Sonny Cele

I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something…

— Rachel Vincent

“Right you guessed the rising morrow And scorned to tread the mire you must: Dust's your wages, son of sorrow, But men…

— A.E. Housman

A vampire is a flexible metaphor. You know, death, sex, change, stagnation, loss of self, loss of agency, having to keep one's…

— Kelly Link

You don't have to fear this amorphous thing called grief or loss or anger or jealousy. You define it for yourself in…

— Gary Zukav

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant…

— Rumi

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Tomorrow and tomorrow come creeping in and always will. We're fools trapped in a mechanism of our own unconscious making. Shadows strutting…

— David Hewson

“The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths.…

— Karen Ranney

The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which…

— Bayard Taylor

And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said-and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to…

— Kerry Greenwood

“If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had…

— Elisabeth Elliot

The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don't seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and…

— Charles R. Swindoll

“When clouds of pain loom in the sky When a shadow of sadness flickers by When a tear finds its way to…

— Javed Akhtar

“There will be a lot of young men returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, who have seen terrible things, and who know…

— Peter B. Lockhart

“Precious to the Lord are the death of His saints." DEATH IS NOT FINAL. God has set eternity in the hearts of…

— David Holdsworth