Grief Quotes

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

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.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

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.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

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.

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

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

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

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

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.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.

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