Grief Quote by Robin Hobb

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

— Priscille Sibley

“But life was muffled. Muted. Even my lightest moments were wrapped in relentless grief and loss, pressed down by the anxious taste of waiting…

— Julie Berry

“Grief is a kind of war, I think now. Loss is like a bullet. A person can only take so much.”

— Stephanie Oakes

“Grief can be catered just like anything else.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.”

— Kevin Powers

“And it is, by the way, from the presence of others that we really derive support in our dark hours of grief, and not…

— H. Rider Haggard

“Tell me the news, again, whatever it is... sorrow and I are hardly strangers. I can bear the worst.”

— Sophocles

“Grief is like an ocean. It comes in waves - some waves are bigger than others and you cannot prepare for it.”

— Summer Lane

“grief was a personal thing; something you had to come to terms with and find a way to get through somehow.”

— Connie Suttle

“Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to grieving families…

— Patricia Cornwell

“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

“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”

— Patti Callahan Henry