Grief Quote by Adrienne Rich

“Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it felt with…

— William Shakespeare

“That someone would mourn her death made her want to live in the fiercest way.”

— H. L. Burke

“She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth…

— Alan Brennert

“But I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a somber…

— Wallace Stegner

“Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief…

— Truman Capote

“The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame”

— Sam Selvon

“Just walk fearlessly into the house of mourning, for grief is just love squaring up to its oldest enemy. And after all these mortal…

— Catherine Burns

“The depths of winter longing are ice within my heart The shards of broken covenants lie sharp against my soul The wraiths of long-lost…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a party, for…

— Walker Percy

“Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what…

— Joseph Roach

“She's fainted, or dead,' I thought: 'so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker…

— Emily Brontë