Best Grief Qoutes
1733 Grief quotes by 1001 unique authors
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At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always…
— Michael Dorris
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There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation.
— Vernon Howard
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
— Edward Abbey
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime…
— John Milton
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We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead…
— Herman Melville
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Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to…
— Rosanne Cash
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I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should…
— William Shakespeare
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Joy lives concealed in grief.
— Rumi
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Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.
— Lea Michele
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I do not want to arrive at the end of life and then be asked what I made of it and have to answer: 'I…
— Liv Ullmann
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These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught…
— Carl Sagan
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After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was…
— Joy Page
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Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty…
— Nadeem Aslam
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You'll live astride the line that separates life from death. You'll become experienced in the wisdom of grief. You won't wait until people die to…
— Rana Dasgupta
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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
— Wendell Berry
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Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in…
— Martin Luther
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste…
— Ben Okri
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This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they…
— Julian Barnes
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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.
— Horace
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