3,968 Quotes About Grief

  • Author Franz Schubert
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    No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

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  • Author Lillian Smith
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    The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

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  • Author Michael Sheen
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    No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

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  • Author Nicholas Sparks
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    Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

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  • Author Patti Smith
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    Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

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