Grief Quotes · Page 291

“I am thinking of Achilles’ grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only…

— Tobias Wolff

His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable…

— Aberjhani

I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

— Julia Child

“night has enveloped, to give me some relief now invisible are walls of separation, and thy grief where blood quenches the thirst…

— Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” ― William”

— Inglath Cooper

“Life is always there for the courageous! But change involves risk... and a kind of mourning for what you leave behind you.”

— Mary Ryan

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C. S. Lewis

“It made him sad, realising that their smell was going to be gone for good one day. Even if they kept all…

— Pamela Harju

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

— Babette Deutsch

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

— Horace

He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping…

— Herbie Brennan

“Not all heartbreaks have to end with you broken.”

— Dawn Lanuza

Grief is itself a medicine.

— William Cowper

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other…

— Sophie Swetchine

“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”

— Sanhita Baruah

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential…

— Thomas Lynch

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief…. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance ….. What they…

— Ranata Suzuki

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I leave ya family mourning like breakfast.

— Papoose

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be…

— Richard Steele

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

“The pain of your loss will return. Less, but still considerable. I know you've worked hard to release it, but it can…

— Alex Bledsoe

People over complicate this world. They drown themselves in worries and unnecessary sorrows.

— Anonymous

ought we not, from time to time, open ourselves up to cosmic sadness? ... Give your sorrow all the space and shelter…

— Etty Hillesum