3,968 Quotes About Grief

I am with the American people. I share their pain. I share their grief, whether he was involved or not.

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

Sometimes I wish for falling Wish for the release Wish for falling through the air To give me some relief Because falling's not the problem When I'm falling I'm in peace It's only when I hit the ground It causes all the grief

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.