Quotes About Grief

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

Women weep for the dead. Men avenge them.

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

I am taking this in, slowly, Taking it into my body. This grief. How slow The body is to realize You are never coming back.

I can't even imagine how hard it is to spend time with a stranger after being married all your life. Kevin was sick a long time, but not having him at all now is much worse than I thought it would be. The only consolation is that I know he's out of pain. I'm relieved and depressed all at the same time. It's terrible," she confessed. "I thought I had grieved it all out when he fell into the coma." Morrie

really sorry you lost your sister and brother-in-law. There's never anything adequate to say in sympathy,

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

Grief never ends Ã¢â'¬Â¦ But it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Eran extraños los caminos del corazón. Uno podía pasar años habituado a una pérdida, resignado, y después, con un pensamiento casual, el dolor volvía a la superficie, agudo y desnudo como una herida reciente.

How many losses does it take to stop a heart, to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

Seine Knochen schmerzten. Keiner hat ihm gesagt, dass Trauer ein Schmerz in den Knochen ist, in jeder Zelle des Körpers.

It's just that I can't figure out how to be in this world without him. I just can't be the same.

I prayed she would haunt me forever. Just because she was dead, she had no right to desert me.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

What's wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn't think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine's death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn't show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody.

Every time I blinked I saw her: the untroubled face, the motionless body, the detail of her tattoo. Every time I breathed I realised that the woman with the Brighton Mermaid tattoo wasn't going to do that ever again.

find it, I know you'll come back to me.' It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he died. Everyone thinks I'm coping so well without him –they have no idea what I've been hiding or what I do away from prying eyes. But now that my 14-year-old daughter has confessed something so devastating it could destroy our family

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.