Grief Quotes

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

— Tennessee Williams

“My hands are dying.”

— Courtney Summers

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

— Austin O'Malley

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

— John Milton

“-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.”

— Claudia Rankine

“In times of sorrow, be still.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

— Robert Fulghum

Death is too much to ask of the living.

— Dodie Smith

“It's all rather political, mourning is.”

— Melina Marchetta

“Anger was quickly creeping into the areas that mourning hadn’t filled”

— Bernadette Marie

“Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.”

— Munia Khan

“Grief is the price we pay for love, so they say. The price is far too high.”

— Gail Honeyman

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

— Nellie L. McClung

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

You are strong... when you take your grief and teach it to smile.

— Nikhil Saluja

“of sorrow and distress, or something else”

— Rachel Abbott

“She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.”

— Michael Cunningham

“I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often…

— Oscar Wilde

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup.”

— Rumi

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

— Anonymous

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

— Lucy Boynton

F: FIELD of LOVE!..R: ROOT of JOy!.. I: ISLAND of GOD!.. E: END of SoRROW!.. N: NAME of HOPE!.. D: DOOR of…

— Babloo

“If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.”

— Sara Sheridan

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in…

— Dan Chaon

“Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“...what I'm saying isn't for him. If my words were for him they would be different; softer, and more meaningful. They would…

— Cheyenne Berandi

Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara…

— Justin Cronin

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for…

— Violette Leduc

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his…

— Freya Stark

“For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as…

— Jenna Blum

My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better…

— Nancy A. Collins

I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into…

— Christie Watson

These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the…

— Carl Sagan

Some Of The Difficult Moments In Life Is,,, Giving Someone A Hug When You Need It The Most. Fighting Back The Tears…

— Pacifiersucker

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty…

— Justin Cronin

“There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into…

— Alice Walker

3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

“There's nothing lonelier than grief. Sometimes I wanted to cry out to them all in the middle of History "Please please look…

— John Marsden