3,968 Quotes About Grief

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.

They really range all over the map. Some people are very distressed, and there's this outpouring of grief. For other people, it's kind of an adventure. It's a mix of these horrible things and these mundane things.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.