Grief Quote by Edwidge Danticat

“How can it be that there is such a colossal gap between what we think we know about grief and mourning and what we…

— Jim Beaver

“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

“People grieve in different ways, some silently, some in anger, some in spite. Rarely does grief bring out the best in people, despite what…

— Joanne Harris

“Grief is a simple emotion, but its complications can be endless”

— Taya Kyle

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required…

— Joan Didion

“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 feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

— Hugh Leonard

“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”

— Priscille Sibley

“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But…

— David Rieff

“The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn’t recognize as griefs, because they came in what were supposed to…

— Anna White

“Grief was messy. It didn’t have the elegance of longing, the poetry of heartbreak; its wholeness made it solid, its certainty made it base.”

— Lara Williams

“Few stories start with death. Often, it starts with grief.”

— Rin Chupeco