3,968 Quotes About Grief
- Author Elizabeth McCracken
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Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.
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- Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Forgive my grief for one removedThy creature whom I found so fairI trust he lives in Thee and thereI find him worthier to be loved.
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- Author Hisham Matar
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Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.
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- Author Jandy Nelson
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Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.
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- Author Meša Selimović
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Samo si mene imao, osim onih grobova kod kuće, sad više nikog nemamo ni ti ni ja, ti si mene izgubio prije nego ja tebe, ili možda nisi, možda si mislio da stojim pred ovom okovanom kapijom, kao što bi ti stajao zbog mene, možda si se do posljednjeg časa nadao da ću ti pomoći, i kamo sreće da si mi toliko vjerovao, ne bi te uhvatio strah od konačne samoće, kad nas svi napuste. A ako si sve znao, neka mi Bog pomogne.
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- Author Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Strange how few, After all’s said and done, the things that areOf moment. Few indeed! When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! “I had you and I have you now no more.” There, there it dangles,—where’s the little truth That can for long keep footing under thatWhen its slack syllables tighten to a thought? Here, let me write it down! I wish to see Just how a thing like that will look on paper! “I had you and I have you now no more.
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- Author Wisława Szymborska
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I don't reproach the spring for starting up again.I can't blame it for doing what it must year after year. I know that my grief will not stop the green.
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- Author Gail Caldwell
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What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
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- Author Cheryl Strayed
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I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
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