Quotes About Grief

I can't speak for others, but I miss my father.

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can't keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

I wouldn't want anyone to go through what my mam did - she was ill for two and a half years with breast cancer that moved to her spine, and died in 1998, when she was 51.

Working out is something that has helped me through everything. Through the grieving of my father, the scandals. It has been something that has helped me not only physically, but mentally and spiritually.

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

After Balasaheb died, I have not spoken. What do I say?

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

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.