3,968 Quotes About Grief

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Time takes away the grief of men.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.