Grief Quotes · Page 142

“Hunger is a reliable feeling; it had a simplicity love or grief did not.”

— Justin Hill

“Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives…

— Pema Chödrön

I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a…

— Elizabeth Keckley

“You thought it would break you in two, but it made you twice as strong.”

— Eleanor Brownn

“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know…

— Alan Heathcock

“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and…

— Franz Schubert

“The state of mind above which my distraction floats like fog is suddenly perfectly clear, though the right word for it is…

— Mark Doty

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Throw my heart Against the flint and hardness of my fault: Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder, And finish…

— William Shakespeare

Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“You can tear the petal, but it will still release the scent. Grief can shred the heart, but it will still sing…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“I took the sheep and cut their throats over the pit, and let the dark blood flow. Then there gathered the spirits…

— Anonymous

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or…

— Horace

“She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts…

— Tess Hardwick

“As I see it, people who experience equal amounts of sadness and happiness in their lives must be incredibly blessed. Some people…

— Masaji Ishikawa

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

— Ann Hood

“I pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;…

— William Shakespeare

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

— Laini Taylor

“It can be too sad here. We so often lose our way. It is easy to sense and embrace meaning when life…

— Anne Lamott

“Perhaps I was easier to shake off for you because you’re such a together person. I was just an extra layer on…

— Ranata Suzuki

“Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I'm a huge fan of Richard Curtis - there's real grief, real compassion in his films as well as cheekiness; it's a…

— Susanne Bier

What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

— Sarah Kane

I just wake up each day in a slightly different place. Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean…

— Michelle Williams

“Pour your heart out to me and fill my emptiness with your grief.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I don't think there is much fear of your dying of grief as long as you can talk, Anne," said Marilla unsympathetically.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I didn't emerge from the cocoon of my past to become an uninhibited, emotionally healthy butterfly. Nothing is ever that easy. Sometimes…

— Megan Hart

I dislike religion quite intensely. It's been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first…

— Lemmy

“Now that she’d done her own tour she could see a little bit of the war in him, his familiarity with silences,…

— Cara Hoffman

I went from one to the other holding my sorrow - no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our…

— Virginia Woolf

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

— Rumi

“We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.”

— Natalie Brenner

Why don't you see me? Why don't you hear me? Why don't you feel me? Why won't you talk to me? Why…

— Eric Nickel

“The true nature of sorrow is boredom.”

— Manu Joseph

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

— William Shakespeare

“Food, particularly chocolate, at a time of grief or crisis is never a mistake.”

— Lucinda Fleeson

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow…

— Richard Steele

Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.

— William Shakespeare

“In Louisiana, one of the first stages of grief is eating your weight in Popeyes fried chicken. The second stage is doing…

— Ken Wheaton