3,968 Quotes About Grief

What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven.

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror and hope, in this hatred and lack of understanding between men who spoke the same tongue, you could see much of the tragedy of the twentieth century.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Great unhappiness is incompatible with the belief that it will ever end.

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot