3,968 Quotes About Grief

I talk about things like how to lose without losing identity. All loss and grief feels like when you transition.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

When the shadow of death blots out my joy And erases the face of the sun Give me strength to endure, hope to believe That living and dying are one.

And every grief that mortals shareFound pity in his tenderness.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death. [Fr., Le ciel me prive d'une epouse qui ne m'a jamais donne d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort.]

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come ...

The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled ...

In my time of dyin', want nobody to moanAll I want them to do is take my body home