Quotes About Grief

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.

When in place of love you have grieves. And in place of glory nonfulfillment of hopes you earn, know that it's a natural catastrophe preparing you for distinguished conditions." - Darmie Orem

Life has only three states-Happiness, Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

After my husband John Lennon passed away, I tried to smile for my health.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.

I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my [child] again within the arms of God.

For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play their pageant everywhere.

Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.

The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

The way I see it, he's all we have left ofher.

Upon hearing the news I felt completely emptied. Emptied of life, feeling, and hope. I felt as if my very soul had left my body.

Hope and Happiness Hope is grief's best music.