Grief Quotes And Sayings

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“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence–but more generally takes the form of apathy”
– Joseph Conrad

“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn’t go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.”
– Jude Watson

“I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.”
– Judith McNaught

“Three years? That’s a thousand tomorrows, ma’am.”
– Karen Kingsbury

“Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?”
– Kate Morton

“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”
– Katherine Owen

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.”
– Katherine Owen

“Grief changes shape, but it never ends”
– Keanu Reeves

“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom”

– Khalil Gibran

“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
– Kristina McMorris

“…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Ah, grief makes us precise!”
– Leonard Cohen

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”
– Lisa Kleypas

“For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear”
– Lord Byron

“…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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

“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.”
– Maggie Stiefvater

“It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
– Marcel Proust

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind”
– Marcel Proust

“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.”
– Marcus Antonius

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.”
– Markus Zusak

“Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation”
– Martha Beck

“Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.”
– Mary Doria Russell

“What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you’re feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin – to get stressed out”
– Mehmet Oz

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