3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief does not demand pity; It requests acknowledgement" - Jude Gibbs

...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.

NO ONE'S GRIEF SHOULD BE DISRESPECTED. EVERYONE IS STRUGGLING WITH THEIR OWN PROBLEMS. SOME CAN HIDE THEIR PAIN, OTHERS CANNOT.

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Painful habits:1. Forgetting friends to lose myself in lovers.Remembering them only when love is lost again. 2. Knowing that real love does not need convincing but trying anyway. 3. Building castles of projections, making pedestals out of dreams.4. Crowning temporary visitors Kings.

We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)