Grief Quotes · Page 258

Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.…

— Anonymous

If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

Courage is being afraid and going on the journey anyhow.

— John Wayne

“The stranger knew this song, for he sang it too. He sang it through the tears of an unanswered longing, through the…

— Dallas Mullican

“Slowly, painfully, I let go. It was like prying my own fingers off the edge of the cliff. And that hurt too-particularly…

— Robin McKinley

About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand…

— Blake Butler

“How then do we recover from depression and despair? It is only by crying out to God and accepting His helping hands…

— Cheryl Zelenka

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

— Susanna Kaysen

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

— Brigitte Bardot

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

— Holly Black

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go…

— Lauren Oliver

“The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciated…

— Vasily Grossman

Thank God everything is quicklyover, both love and grief.

— Bertolt Brecht

I want to be two people at once. One runs away.

— Peter Heller

“Perhaps ... To R.A.L. Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue,…

— Vera Brittain

“Anger is often grief’s loudest voice.”

— I am Uldean

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

This silence speaks a million words Words of comfort so shallow How I wish even for one tear But for my heart…

— Swallow The Sun

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own…

— Ramana Maharshi

It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that…

— Cormac McCarthy

“We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water…

— Suzy Kassem

“Grief goes at its own speed. Because there is such a lack of progress in my emotional healing, I just want to…

— Natalie Taylor

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

— Alfred de Musset

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget,…

— Anonymous

“She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided…

— Libba Bray