Best Grief Proverbs

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I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall
Grief is a species of idleness. — Samuel Johnson
In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage… — Joseph Addison
Grief is accepting the reality of what is. That is grief's job and purpose-to allow us to come to terms with the way things really… — Henry Cloud
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result. — Henry Cloud
How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn. — Helen Keller
Death is too much to ask of the living. — Dodie Smith
Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else. — Penelope Lively
Memory is the only friend of grief. — Rumer Godden
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and… — Pearl S. Buck
You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. — Jeanette Winterson
There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie. — May Sarton
I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. — Friedrich Schiller
There are some men above grief and some men below it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say… — Toni Morrison
You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive… — Barbara Kingsolver
Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed. — Confucius
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and… — Seneca the Younger
Sorrow is the great idealizer. — James Russell Lowell
LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars.… — Sathya Sai Baba
Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old… — Marianne Williamson
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old… — Michael Leunig
In my end is my beginning — Mary, Queen of Scots

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