3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.

The greatest griefs are silent.

"Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us."

Only the mourning for what one has missed at the crucial time can lead to real healing.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.

She takes another long haul, lets the smoke settle in her lungs-- she has heard somewhere that cigarettes are good for grief. One long drag and you forget how to cry. The body too busy dealing with the poison.