3,968 Quotes About Grief

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.

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

Ah, grief makes us precise!