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Quotes About Grief

A poem with its throat cut from ear to ear. The Daily Mirror
~ Lawrence Durrell
The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
~ Emilia Lanier
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
~ Jodi Picoult
This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.
~ William Shakespeare
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
~ Ovid
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
~ Daniel Handler
Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.
~ Faraaz Kazi
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
~ Faraaz Kazi
You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?
~ Patrick Carman, Pulse
Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypres let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
~ William Shakespeare
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
~ Sharon Olds
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
~ Homer
There are no words to express how sad and devastated I am. I have lost one of my dearest friends, and the industry has lost a giant.
~ Farrah Fawcett
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
~ George Eliot
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? —Sam McQueen
~ Sally Nicholls
A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.
~ James Poniewozik
Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.
~ Phil Coulter
A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.
~ William Shakespeare
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
~ Euripides
A lot of country music is sad.
~ Willie Nelson
Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.
~ Faraaz Kazi