Quotes About Grief

Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, "He won't call me to account"? But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless. (Ps. 10:12–14 NIV)

The healthiest relationships we enjoy are good gifts to be treasured, but they are only a scent and symbol of what it means to belong to you. And our most painful and disconnected relationships don't have to define us. We can grieve the loss and bring the wounds to you.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.

and wailed aloud for their lord's decease. A Geat woman too sang out in grief; with hair bound up, she unburdened herself

It bothers me to have to burden anyone with all the grief Grendel has caused and the havoc he has wreaked upon us in Heorot, our humiliations

Wise conduct is the key to happiness. Always rule by gods and reverence them. Those who overbear will be brought to grief. Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor And in due season teach them to be wise.

No trembling harp, no tuned timber, no tumbling hawk swerving through the hall, no swift horse pawing the courtyard. Pillage and slaughter have emptied the earth of entire peoples. And so he mourned as he moved about the world, deserted and alone, lamenting his unhappiness day and night, until death's flood brimmed up in his heart.

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

Que pour les malheureux l'heure lentement fuit! How slowly the hours pass to the unhappy.

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.

Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

Grieving must be done in its own time. To deny the human reality that pain hurts only delays the process.

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.