Absence Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good; there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist…

— Joseph Joubert

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

— Jeanette Winterson

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

— Morena Baccarin

Grief is a profound part of recovery and new life. Tears of regrets, remorse and despair waters the roots of love and life itself.…

— Anonymous

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

— Andrew Solomon

Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

— Margaret Deland

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

— Orson Scott Card

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

— Carrie Brownstein

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the…

— Mark Nepo

One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of…

— Abigail McCarthy