Grief Quotes · Page 39

“It's still ok to dream with a broken heart.”

— Nikki Rowe

“There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.

— Oswald Chambers

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

— Honore de Balzac

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

— Peter Heller

“There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it.”

— Bodie Thoene

“A long walk in a long beach shortens every kind of sorrow!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.”

— R. Scott Bakker

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

— John Claypool

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

— Tacitus

More often than not, we end up sharing our joys with people we love and grief with the people who love us.

— Anonymous

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

— Marcus Aurelius

Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.

— Jason Becker

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

— Hugh Leonard

Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.

— Jason Reynolds

“To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor.”

— Daniel Bel-Tempo

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The thought of leaving her alone haunted me. The sadness was suffocating me and twisting my chest and my heart and I…

— Bernadette Sutherland

“Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and…

— Cormac McCarthy

I just want to go home. See my wife, play with my girls. I just want to matter again. When will this…

— Eric Nickel

“Mothering while grieving should involve being understanding and keeping a gentle attitude toward yourself as you work to balance your own needs…

— Elizabeth Berrien

“How do you say what's in your heart if your heart is something you haven't known for years? How do you give…

— T.J. Klune

“I know part of my sorrow is just disguised self-pity, I needed that exchange and I worry how I'll cope without it…

— William Boyd

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief…

— Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their…

— Gideon Welles

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the wood. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what…

— Franz Kafka

Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything…

— Debra Ginsberg

No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue.…

— Maximus the Confessor

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

— Wendell Berry

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead…

— Neil Abramson

“I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she…

— Madeline Miller

“In the days after my heart attack & before I began to write again, all I could think about was dying. I'd…

— Nicole Krauss

Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

— Anonymous

They say seven stages of grief. I think it's more like 77.

— Joely Fisher

“Gus was looking at him for confirmation of all his sorrows.”

— Jack Kerouac

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

— Katherine Mansfield

When a mother dies, a daughter’s mourning never completely ends.

— Hope Edelman

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow.

— Gary Jules

They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings.

— John Ford

Grief takes a long time to process and it's different for everyone.

— Coleen Nolan