Air Quote by Aunjanue Ellis

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

— Madeline Miller

For years I have engaged with this ecological crisis on an intellectual level, the mounting evidence, the science... but now I have engaged with…

— Gail Bradbrook

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it,…

— Johnny Cash

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.

— Megan Hart

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where…

— Stephen Levine

We soon cease to feel the grief at the deaths of our friends, yet we continue to the end of our lives to miss…

— Gerald Brenan

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There…

— Lauren Oliver

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its…

— Arthur Golden

“Grief is a swallow,' he said. 'One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place,…

— Elif Shafak

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

— Judith McNaught

Grief is a species of idleness.

— Samuel Johnson