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Quotes About Grief

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.
~ Marc Forster
Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.
~ Nicolas Roeg
With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
~ Ariel Levy
To me, death is dark, pain, grief.
~ Mary Roach
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.
~ Ariel Levy
Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.
~ John Cho
I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating right, and working out.
~ Terri Irwin
Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.
~ Lucy Boynton
When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.
~ Arnel Pineda
Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.
~ Andrew Strauss
I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and grief as a child.
~ Mike Flanagan
I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.
~ Phil Elverum
With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.
~ Dana Reeve
Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.
~ Sam Shepard
I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to it and it's been completely different to how I thought it was going to be.
~ Andrew Strauss
I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.
~ Eric Greitens
Love has a cost, and it's grief. Because we will always be separated from things we love. That's the nature and price of life, right? But, when you love something deeply, then you're courageous.
~ Gail Bradbrook
It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.
~ Luke Campbell
To me, it feels like every time I'm watching some trans story, it's about their grief around their gender. And there's not really a lot of opportunity for them to explore stories outside of that. It's just really frustrating. It's really one dimensional.
~ Patti Harrison
There's been no end to the grief Mitch McConnell's taken for his declaration early in Barack Obama's first term that his party's top goal was to make Obama a one-term president.
~ Steve Kornacki
In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.
~ Rachel House
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.
~ Charlotte Rampling
For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
~ Michael Sheen