Grief Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.”
– Sappho

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
– Sarah Dessen

“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
– Sarah Dessen

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”
– Sarah Dessen

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”

– Sivananda

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”
– Sophocles

“Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They’d had no idea what they were talking about. He’d cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“Love is an engraved invitation to grief.”
– Sunshine O’Donnell

“Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.”
– Sunshine O’Donnell

“She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’
‘I’m sorry,’ she replied. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
– Veronica Roth

“Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.”
– Veronica Roth

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
– Vicki Harrison

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”
– Victor Hugo

“I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days.”
– Victoria Hanley

“Tears are the silent language of grief”
– Voltaire

“When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; therefore, the relationship continues. The work of grief is to reconcile and redeem life to a different love relationship.”
– W. Scott Lineberry

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”
– Washington Irving

“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free”
– Wendell Berry

“Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
– William Blake

“When I die, I shall then have my greatest grief and my greatest joy; my greatest grief, that I have done so little for Jesus, and my greatest joy, that Jesus has done so much for me.”
– William Grimshaw

“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

“We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife”
– William Shatner

“No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.”
– Zora Neale Hurston

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