Quotes About Grief

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings, Indifferent host to shepherds and kings, Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.

I should like to tell you again of my bitter troubles so that mutually, by recounting our grief, we can lighten each other's sorrow.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

The only cure for grief is action.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.

My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.

You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don't have one without the other.

Losing my dad made me more mature. Being an only child, I didn't have the right to act childish. I had to step up. I was earning money already in Turkey. I felt like I needed to protect the family and protect my mom and be a man.