Grief Quote by Edwidge Danticat

“She could only hope they could read the depth of sorrow in her face, to recognize that it was true, and not fleeting.”

— Markus Zusak

“She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in…

— George Eliot

“I was not sorrowful, but only tired Of everything that ever I desired.”

— Ernest Dowson

“She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole.”

— Peter Heller

“She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.”

— Alice Hoffman

“For so long, I’d wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I’d just had no idea that in those words there would…

— A.L. Jackson

“He nestled in her arms, and she knew she would rather die than let them be parted and face that sadness again; it would…

— Philip Pullman

“Sorrow ought to be private, she thinks, not flaunted.”

— khaled hosseini

“I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.”

— William Shakespeare

“And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She felt everything so deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”

— Joyce Maynard

“She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life…

— Kate Chopin