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Quotes About Grief

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
~ William Hazlitt
For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
~ William Butler Yeats
Death is not the worst sorrow.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.
~ Eloisa James
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
~ Eric Holder
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.
~ Esther Hicks
In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
~ George Eliot
Thou hast death in thy house, and dost bewaile anothers.
~ George Herbert
I grieve for every death.
~ George P. Bush
It breaks my heart to think about a family weeping over the loss of a loved one. I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place.
~ George P. Bush
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
~ Guru Nanak
And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
~ William Shakespeare
My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.
~ Tim Allen
Death strips all men of dignity.
~ Tobsha Learner
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
~ W. H. Auden
A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
~ William Butler Yeats
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
~ William Shakespeare
The gloomy shade of death.
~ William Shakespeare
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
~ William Shakespeare
The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!
~ William Shakespeare
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear
Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones