Grief Quotes and Sayings
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.
- Charles Bukowski
Grief is love turned into an eternal missing.
- Rosamund Lupton
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.
- Cassandra Clare
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
~ E.M. Cioran
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
- Emily Giffin
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
- Sarah Dessen
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.
- Alice Hoffman
If he didn’t love so deeply, he couldn’t grieve so deeply. But he’s drowning in it.
- Dee Henderson
Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm.
- Patricia Cornwell
Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief?
- Sophocles
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
- Veronica Roth
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C.S. Lewis
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
- John Green
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
- Terri Guillemets
Grief is itself a medicine.
– William Cowper
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Kenji Miyazawa
Time is a physician that heals every grief.
– Diphilus
Grief is a species of idleness.
– Samuel Johnson
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
– Samuel Johnson