Grief Quotes - Page 2

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

They say grief occurs in five stages. First there's denial followed by anger. Then comes bargaining, depression and acceptance. But grief is a merciless master. Just when you think you're free you realize you never stood a chance.

Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you have wrought unto the world.

When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.

You said move on, where do I go?

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.