Grief Quotes

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part of you is entirely subject to its demands.

I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly.

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.