Ancient Quote by Primo Levi

New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole…

— Wendell Berry

“After desolation, grief brings back our humanity”

— Mason Cooley

“Abandoned by a God in whom many of us believed, we lay prostrate and dazed in our demi-tomb. From time to time, one of…

— Guy Sajer

“It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when grief itself…

— Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

— Joan D. Chittister

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal…

— Peter Akinola

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which…

— Pericles

“But here’s what grieving people wish others would understand: grief is incredibly, relentlessly lonely. It really makes a huge difference to be reminded that…

— Nancy Guthrie

“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

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its…

— Arthur Golden

Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is…

— Victor Hugo

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do…

— Janet Frame