Grief Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so long, my…

— Herman Hesse

“She had always experienced big, intense emotions here at Lover's Leap. Under this huge sky, surrounded by infinite beauty, she had grieved to the…

— Emily March

“I had a deep and abiding love for the idea that this life is not something that we are forced to endure but rather…

— Paul Harding

“The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.”

— Orson Scott Card

“... take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.”

— Ann Voskamp

“I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Mary Shelley

“He was awed at her touch and what the human heart is capable of feeling - such sadness, such shame, but such acceptance such…

— Jamie Ford

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with…

— Anna White

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“Only pain makes it grow stronger. One sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The…

— Douglas Coupland

“Sorrow isn't the absence of passion. Sorrow is the darkest, most intense form of passion hidden in the recesses of the soul.”

— Andrea Randall