3,968 Quotes About Grief


  • Author Roberto Bolano
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    When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

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  • Author Sylvia Browne
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    Both of us were orphans. No one would remember what we remembered. The elders that stood as protective shields, as references to our past, and as reflections of who we were and are and where we came from, were gone.

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  • Author Sylvia Browne
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    I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

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  • Author Toni Cade Bambara
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    For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole.

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  • Author Tony Blair
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    There are no words that can truly comfort those who are grieving the loss of their loved ones today,

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  • Author Wendell Berry
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    The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

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  • Author Wendell Berry
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    I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

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  • Author William Blake
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    Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

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