3,968 Quotes About Grief

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

There is no shortcut to grieving.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let the past be past: Sleep, happy soul, all life will sleep at last.

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.