Quotes About Grief

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.

You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment.

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only Silence. Indifference.

The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

It's always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

one of the most heartbreaking conditions of life on Earth is that most of the animals we love... die so long before we do.

Never give way to melancholy: nothing encroaches more; I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now? Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next year? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.

The first is about spiritual living. I think it's plain. Ordinary people do it, and they don't even know they are doing it. In the middle of plain lives, with regular joys and griefs, they live with grace and kindness and are happy.

Watching these happy beings for whom weeping was impossible, he had become incapable of grief; watching their inconsistencies, he had become incapable of knowing right from wrong; disregarded by them he had become incapable of disappointment.

In London her grief was retracted into sudden realisations of her loss. She had thought that sorrow would be her companion for many years and had planned for its entertainment. Now it visited her like sudden snow-storms, a hastening darkness across the sky, a transient whiteness and rigour cast upon her. She tried to recover the sentiment of renunciation which she had worn like a veil. It was gone, and gone with it was her sense of the dignity of bereavement.