Quotes About Grief

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

His was the disease we couldn't cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most

But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls.

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.