Grief Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies.”

— Mary Shelley

“I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers…

— Mary Shelley

“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

“But when tragedy strikes, it leaves no part of your life, of your being, untouched, unscathed, unscarred. ~Blood Like Poison: For the Love of…

— M. Leighton

“The sharp edge of grief might dull with time, but it never truly went away. The cruel blade was always in your heart, just…

— Jennifer Estep

“When the name was in the room, it came to pass that the murderer, abashed, opened up, and there sprang forth, like a Glory,…

— Jean Genet

“I am shot with wounds which have eyes that see a world all sorrow, always to be, panoramic and unhealable, and mouths that hang…

— Elizabeth Smart

“Death is a monster which turns away from the great theatre an attentive hearer before the end of the play which deeply interests him,…

— Giacomo Casanova

“Silent, unseen, small cousin of death, Born this instant, closer than breath, Killer of thought, assassin of dreams, Memory's surgeon, the end of your…

— Michael Swanwick

“And grief was dangerous, because people fought hard and smart to protect the living. People got themselves—and everyone around them—killed trying to avenge the…

— Kit Rocha

“So I shall practice sorrow in my love, stand in thin sun from old windows and grieve: inevitability of the grave, monotony of death,…

— Grace Butcher

“But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they…

— Mary Shelley