Grief Quotes And Sayings

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“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.”
– Melina Marchetta

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble”
– Moliere

“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”

– Niccolo Machiavelli

“He’d lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“You don’t go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be”
– Nigella Lawson

“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner’s loss.”
– Orson Scott Card

“Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength”
– Ovid

“When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.”
– Pat Schweibert

“Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.”
– Patricia Cornwell

“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”
– Patti Callahan Henry

“Life Lesson 3: You can’t rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around — beds, pillows, arms, laps.”
– Patti Davis

“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”
– Paul Engle

“[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.”
– Pericles

“One often calms one’s grief by recounting it”
– Pierre Corneille

“Grief is the price we pay for love.”

– Queen Elizabeth II

“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
– Richard Adams

“Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.”
– Robert E. Neale

“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance”
– Robert Frost

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death”

– Robert Fulghum

“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
– Roland Barthes

“But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels…”
– Rosamund Lupton

“Grief is love turned into an eternal missing”
– Rosamund Lupton

“When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.”
– Rosamund Lupton

“I’ve grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It’s weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.”
– Rosie Thomas

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
– Rumi

“Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire”
– S. M. Boyce

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates”
– Samuel Johnson

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