3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language

Here are what I call the 3 Gs of Humility:1. Grief: You’re experiencing grief. It’s a tunnel, not a cave.2. Grace: Give yourself and others grace. Like, now.3. Grit: You have to learn how to make money differently.Humility is learning. Learning is changing.

We all force our true selves into little hashes and show them like passwords. A smile is a hashing function, and a word, and a cry. The cry is not the grief, the word is not the meaning, and smile is not the joy: we cannot run the hash in reverse, we cannot get from the sign to the absolute truth. Maybe the smile is false. Maybe the grief is a lie.

Everyone knows that sadness and grief are the price of admission for the experiences of joy and connection.

Tears of grief and tears of joy are the same tears.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.

Love is a muscle that gets stronger with exercise, and there is no more demanding exercise than letting go.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.