3,968 Quotes About Grief

  • Author Mary Oliver
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    We shake with joy, we shake with grief. What a time they have, these two housed as they are in the same body.

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  • Author Meghan O'Rourke
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    I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

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  • Author Meghan O'Rourke
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    I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was.

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  • Author Meghan O'Rourke
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    Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

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  • Author Meghan O'Rourke
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    I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.

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  • Author Meghan O'Rourke
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    'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

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  • Author Meghan O'Rourke
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    One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

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  • Author Ovid
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    Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts.

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