Grief Quotes And Sayings

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“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”
– Emily Giffin

“If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it”
– Emma Thompson

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”
– Euripides

“Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.”
– Faraaz Kazi

“No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.”
– Faraaz Kazi

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,
The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That Woman is in love with her own grief.”
– Gabrielle Zevin

“What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.”
– Gail Caldwell

“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”
– Henri Nouwen

“Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?”
– Henry David Thoreau

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you – it’s born with us the day that we are born.”
– Homer

“If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself”
– Horace

“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart”
– Horace Mann

“And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
– J.D. Salinger

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
– J.K. Rowling

“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“It’s funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.”
– Jacqueline Carey

“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how”
– James Russell Lowell

“…you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder, you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help… And then finally, the way through grief is grieving.”
– Jane Hamilton

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates”
– Jean de la Bruyere

“One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they’re crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don’t make sense”
– Joan Didion

“Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn’t yours. But grief comes from losing something you’ve already had.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.”
– Jodi Picoult

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn’t get past something like that, you got through it.”
– Jodi Picoult

“words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.”
– Jodi Picoult

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
– John Green

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
– John Green

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
– José N. Harris

“Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another”
– Joseph Addison

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