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100+ Grief Quotes

Grief refers to intense sorrow, especially caused by someone's death. Grief is common in life. We fall and we rise. Grief makes us strong. This is a collection of 100+ Grief quotes and sayings.


Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. - Aeschylus
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich. - Mike Mills
Your grief path is yours alone, and no one else can walk it, and no one else can understand it. - Terri Irwin
If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself. - Horace
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. - Anne Roiphe
Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire
Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting. - Kay Redfield Jamison
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. - Cassandra Clare
Each organ is related to an emotion, and the lungs are related to grief. When you clear your lungs, you eliminate grief and sadness. - Mandy Ingber
Grief changes shape, but it never ends. - Keanu Reeves
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life. - Caitriona Balfe
Grief and resilience live together. - Michelle Obama
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward. - Patti Davis
There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. - Nigella Lawson
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. - Ann Hood
Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. - Yance Ford
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C. S. Lewis
Time takes away the grief of men. - Desiderius Erasmus
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C. S. Lewis
18. Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. - Benjamin Disraeli
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. - Ovid
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. - Alphonse de Lamartine
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. - Samuel Johnson
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Grief is a process, not a state. - Anne Grant
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. - Benjamin Disraeli
There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. - David LaChapelle
One often calms one's grief by recounting it. - Pierre Corneille
Grief is a process, not a state. - Anne Grant
Good grief, we're getting offended by everything these days! People can't say anything without offending somebody. - Hillary Clinton
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. - Simon Van Booy
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. - Walker Percy
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. - Dominic Cooper
Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. - Joseph B. Wirthlin
Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling. - Carrie Brownstein
If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. - Moliere
There are many stages of grief. - Jennifer Aniston
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. - William Congreve
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. - Bryan Procter
Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. - Jacqueline Novogratz
The only cure for grief is action. - George Henry Lewes
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing. - Kay Redfield Jamison
Grief causes suffering and disease. - Daniel D. Palmer
Grief is exhausting. - Ciaran Hinds
Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona. - Meghan O'Rourke
There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good. - Mike Mills
Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder. - Elizabeth McCracken
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them. - Elizabeth Edwards
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled. - Ariel Levy
Grief, and an estate, is joy understood. - Gregory Nunn
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion. - Nicolas Roeg
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions. - Edward Hirsch
Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience. - Yance Ford
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. - Johann Georg Hamann
Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people. - Thomas Horn
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. - James Martineau
Grief does not change you, ..... It reveals you. - John Green
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. - Rumi
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C.S. Lewis
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J.K. Rowling
So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. - E.A. Bucchianeri
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. - Veronica Roth
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break. - William Shakespeare
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. - William Shakespeare
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. - Nicholas Sparks
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. - Orson Scott Card
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. - Faraaz Kazi
Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. - Sarah Dessen
Love is an engraved invitation to grief. - Sunshine O'Donnell
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. - David Mitchell
The only way to end grief was to go through it. - Holly Black
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty. - Aberjhani
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. - Roland Barthes
Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief. - Alison Bechdel
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. - Seneca
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing. - Rosamund Lupton
Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. - Elizabeth McCracken
Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. - V.C. Andrews
Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise. - Patti Callahan Henry
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. - Sophocles
Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm. - Patricia Cornwell
It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief. - Durgesh Satpathy
It is grief that develops the powers of the mind. - Marcel Proust
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief. - Mary Doria Russell
Grief dares us to love once more. - Terry Tempest Williams
Grief is a peculiar emotion. - Sebastian Faulks
I grieve. Yet know the vanity of grief. - Robert Hayden
Grief grinds slowly; it devours all the time it needs. - Long Litt Woon
A grief stays with you as long as you carry it. - Marty Rubin
Great grief isn't made to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks. - Ann Voskamp
When you lose someone you love, you grieve the past and fear the future. - Lynda Cheldelin Fell
Instances of grief, I have found, are unique, two never coming in the same shape. - Joel Golby
Great memories really can help overwhelm grief. - Cathy Burnham Martin
Grief brings many false dawns, but a solicitude of normality will undoubtedly return. - Kevin Ansbro
Everyone knows that sadness and grief are the price of admission for the experiences of joy and connection. - Jessica Dore
Tears of grief and tears of joy are the same tears. - Marty Rubin
Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. - Denise Levertov
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