3,968 Quotes About Grief

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again.

I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief than not.

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.