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Quotes About Grief

When a loved one disappears, you continue to live with the accompaniment of that person. One has to find a balance between joy and sorrow.
~ Philippe Petit
The criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief.
~ Daniel Cameron
Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.
~ Edward Hirsch
I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.
~ Margo Price
Twitter was an alternative community for me. A different kind of community. I knew I was making people angry. But it didn't matter, they weren't my community. But the longer I was on Twitter and the more I came to know these people, to like and respect them, the more I could see the empathy and grief and sorrow they were expressing.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.
~ Willie Nelson
I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.
~ Allegra Huston
Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.
~ Lauren Miller
Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths.
~ Lynn Johnston
Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength.
~ Kerry Kennedy
Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.
~ William Godwin
But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
~ John Donne
Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.
~ Chelsey Philpot
You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!
~ Evinda Lepins
That's how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it pounded on my door.
~ Kimberly Novosel, Loved
If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
Love is an engraved invitation to grief.
~ Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me
Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved.
~ Alfred Tennyson
If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it.
~ Dee Henderson, The Protector
When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.
~ Bridget Asher
My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.
~ Jesikah Sundin, Elements