Quotes About Grief

We were familiar with the line that separates grief from madness, and we know that sometimes the only way to stay on the right side of it is to scream.

The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.

Loss was a night that never ended.

Our fathers were often away. But then sometimes, out of the blue, they'd be gone forever. Often away and gone forever: the two phrases marked the difference between having a living father and a dead one. It wasn't a big difference, but it was big enough to make us cry when no one was looking. One

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

Perhaps Our Lord took so young an apostle as John into His motley little company in order that he should be still a boy when he took Our Lady home. Perhaps, too, His very special love for John may have had something to do with the future, in which Christ foresaw John giving His Mother no time to grieve.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

If I should meet thee After long years How should I greet thee? With silence and tears.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

And yet, my girl, we weep in vain, In vain our fate in sighs deplore; Remembrance only can remain, But that, will make us weep the more.

Grief melts awayLike snow in May,As if there were no such cold thing.

I live to shew his power, who once did bring My joyes to weep, and now my griefs to sing

O who will give me tears? Come, all ye springs, Dwell in my head and eyes; come, clouds and rain; My grief hath need of all the watery things That nature hath produced: let every vein Suck up a river to supply mine eyes, My weary weeping eyes, too dry for me, Unless they get new conduits, new supplies, To bear them out, and with my state agree.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.

I only know she was the only thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me and Seven Kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind.

A friend doubles joys and cuts griefs in half'?

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

I am become a sour woman, Catelyn thought. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds.

I knew a brother drowned himself in wine once. It was a poor vintage, though, and his corpse did not improve it." "You drank the wine?" "It's an awful thing to find a brother dead. You'd have need of a drink as well, Lord Snow.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.