Grief was an ocean. We were sitting in the middle of it on…

I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got…

— Andrea Gibson

“The weight of loss is heavier than the tears, And in the dense grief, we find the ocean and its shores, A shell on…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger…

— David Nicholls

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

— William Shakespeare

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— Ovid

Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual…

— Fay Weldon

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

— Adrienne Rich

“When we learn to attribute meaning to the events in our lives, we connect with our Higher Purpose, Higher Wisdom, or Source; we become…

— Susan Barbara Apollon

You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…

— Paulo Coelho

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

— Thrity Umrigar

“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.”

— Steven Cooper

“...they had lived, they'd lived intensely. But no matter how deeply you live, it comes to this in the end: one of you will…

— Brian Morton