Grief Quotes - Page 3

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth.

What's even more messed up than funerals, is the way people treat you after the funeral. Like you're diseased or something.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Let it rain on some days,
Let yourself shiver on some cold nights,
So when it's Spring you'll know why it was all worth going through.

listen thoughtfully
sounds of laughter
gaiety and melancholy galore

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.
The extreme state of life is emptiness.

Grief is better than happiness, because in grief a person draws close to God. Your wings open. A tent is set up in the desert where God can visit you. Wealth that arrives in grief is what we spend in joy. The soul is greater than anything you ever lost.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.


photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.