Grief Quotes

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

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.

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

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.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

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.

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 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.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

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.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

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.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.