Browsing Topic Best Grief Quotes

Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.

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

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot.

There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

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

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

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Grief, unresisted, is grace. It doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt anymore, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t rip your heart out….In great grief, there’s an incredible love in it. In love there’s a tinge of bitter. In true love. My teacher used to say ‘all love is bittersweet’. All things experienced fully, reveal their opposite.

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

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

Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

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

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

A lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss.

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others’ losses.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain … unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain – and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief – your time for joy will come, believe me.

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It’s like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done… life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don’t let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours.