3,968 Quotes About Grief

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

The grass is waking in the ground, / Soon it will rise and blow in waves - / How can it have the heart to sway / Over the graves, / New graves?

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.]

Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.