Grief Quotes

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Time takes away the grief of men.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.