3,968 Quotes About Grief

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs

Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.