Quotes about Grief

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.

Grief is the price we pay for love; it’s the echo that reverberates through time.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

You can't make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

Grief is just love with no place to go.

Grief is like a splinter deep into every day; you don’t remember it’s there until it hurts.

Grief feels so strange. It comes in waves, sometimes gentle, sometimes crashing over you. And in between, there is a kind of numb feeling, where you just wait for the next wave.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart and bids it break.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

You'll get through this, you'll see. And when you do, you'll be stronger than before.

The only thing we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Grief is the thing you carry with you, but it doesn't burden you as much.

It's not what happens to you that matters, but how you react to it.

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love.

Grief is a strange thing; we are all forced to wear it differently.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human.

Time is a great healer.

It is not the end. It is the beginning of the end.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

There is no consolation in the world for the loss of a child.

You don't get over grief, you learn to live with it.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair.

Let grief go to sleep. Let it learn to take a nap in the quiet corners of your soul.

And some are born to sunshine and some to storm, And some are born to be forever warm.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

He was gone, who was the light and life of all our joys.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Maybe it's not about the tears you cry, but the love you remember.

A thousand words of praise can't undo the pain of a lost word of appreciation.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

Grief itself’s a medicine.