Grief Quotes · Page 77

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.

— Christian McEwen

I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

— Mason Cooley

“Joy, not sorrow. Laughter, not tears. Life, not death. Love, not blame.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“He has gone to the underworld, and I am here.”

— Madeline Miller

When shared, joy increases and sorrow decreases.

— Tasneem Hameed

“... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...”

— Cordwainer Smith

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

— Ovid

U are a sorrow to the earth but I love u 4 ur wide pussy

— Julio

“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me, I've been alone all along.

— Evanescence

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

— Sissy Spacek

“Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.”

— John Cheever

Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around.

— Phil Elverum

When you look at an obstacle, but see opportunity instead, you become a powerful source that transforms grief into greatness.

— Melchor Lim

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts,…

— Charles Kingsley

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry…

— Rosanne Cash

“Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow and fear. Sorrow and fear spring from affection; from indulgence in sensual pleasures; from preoccupation…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“When one loves all things of the world, when one has that gift of joy, it is not the armour against grief…

— Steven Erikson

“... change and loss and sadness and grief are the shared lot of all human beings ... we are all making our…

— Sylvia Boorstein

All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and…

— Germaine Greer

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot…

— Ilka Chase

Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and…

— Billy Graham

“there is a list of questions i want to ask but never will there is a list of questions i go through…

— Rupi Kaur

“Her empathy was like a double-edged razor that allowed her to experience the nethermost of human joys and sorrows. The best and…

— C.J. Anderson

“The times, the seasons, the signs may have been mythical; but the sufferings were not. I lay in the dark with the…

— M.T. Anderson

“Consummation Of Grief I even hear the mountains the way they laugh up and down their blue sides and down in the…

— Charles Bukowski

Your Life's Account : Your happiness is your profit. Your sorrows are your losses. Your soul is your goodwill. Your heart is…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes this happens without warning. Like the magnitude of the past - of all that has happened - creeps into the space…

— Rebecca Serle

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Every love story is a potential grief story.

— Julian Barnes

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

— Sarah Kane

It's heartbreaking to love someone so much and watch them love someone else.

— Anonymous

“I think once you've felt grief, it's hard not to catch someone else's.”

— Emily Henry

“There is no greater sorrow than thinking back upon a happy time in misery--”

— Dante Alighieri

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

— Charles Dickens