Grief Quotes · Page 87

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

— William Wordsworth

You are the only one who can make me smile even in my deepest sorrows.

— Anonymous

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

— Alfred de Musset

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

— Donald Hall

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

— Anne Roiphe

“Burst the Anguish Within! Allow it to pierce every nerve deep in your skin.”

— Patricia Dsouza

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

— Thomas Fuller

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

— Anonymous

“She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare…

— Sage Steadman

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

— Stephen King

Trying to make a living to see what I can achieve for the benefits of my grief .

— Black Uhuru

“I was covered with blood. It dripped mournfully from my body, with pain and sorrow in every drop.”

— R. O. Barton

Let's admit it, when a loved one passes away, all the things they did, that you first thought were annoying, suddenly become…

— Carniel Dunlop

“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.”

— Orhan Pamuk

When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it…

— Edward Everett

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in…

— Dan Chaon

“Still others, like Kavita, just sit and sit, sometimes for hours. They are the ones, she now understands, who are mourning. Like…

— Shilpi Somaya Gowda

“...what I'm saying isn't for him. If my words were for him they would be different; softer, and more meaningful. They would…

— Cheyenne Berandi

Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara…

— Justin Cronin

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for…

— Violette Leduc

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his…

— Freya Stark

I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to…

— Moses ibn Ezra

“I rarely have a pet tell me their human ended their life too soon. It's far more common to hear that their…

— Karen A Anderson

“When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss…

— Melody Aurora

“In so speaking they saw further than the flesh. In their remorse and disgust it was not mere physical disillusionment that so…

— Henri Barbusse

I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“CALVARY, JUDAEA, APRIL 3RD 33AD   The man sat alone, lost in his thoughts. The world in front of him hazy and…

— Julian Noyce

“I admit I must have been impossible to live with. It was the self-righteousness of the grieving--my idea that I would betray…

— Michael Ignatieff

Now, granted, there are still as many heartbreaking things going on. There are so many things in the Obama administration to be…

— Janeane Garofalo

“(Streets of Sorrow) Oh, farewell you streets of sorrow Oh, farewell you streets of pain I'll not return to feel more sorrow…

— The Pogues

“Everyone was certain that Engineer Safa would go chasing after his wife or he would die of sorrow. Not so. The engineer…

— Goli Taraghi

Being (or feeling as) a poet is also to weep sorrows behind the smile of a pen.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

— Lauren Oliver

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

— Paul Gascoigne

“I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.

— Leslie Weatherhead

“This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.”

— Tolkien J. R. R

“Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?”

— Stephanie Roberts

“Anger is the only antidote strong enough to counter grief.”

— Rauwolfia