Grief Quotes by Wendell Berry

Do not tax your life with forethought of grief.

— Wendell Berry

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

— Wendell Berry

“the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die…

— Wendell Berry

After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through…

— Wendell Berry

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,…

— Wendell Berry

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes…

— Wendell Berry

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I…

— Wendell Berry

“But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for…

— Wendell Berry

New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself,…

— Wendell Berry

“The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when…

— Wendell Berry

“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief,…

— Wendell Berry

Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors…

— Wendell Berry

I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of…

— Wendell Berry

I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she…

— Wendell Berry

“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least…

— Wendell Berry

“I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones,…

— Wendell Berry

“I need to tell about my people in their grief. I don’t think grief is something they get over or get away…

— Wendell Berry

“The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under…

— Wendell Berry