3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.