Grief Quotes

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

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

~ Xenophon

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

~ Molière

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only cure for grief is action.

~ George Henry Lewes

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

~ Pierre Corneille

If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

~ James Nachtwey

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

~ James Martineau

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

~ Anne Grant

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

~ Marie Helvin

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

~ Vusi Mahlasela

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

~ Christopher Morley

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

~ Fran Drescher

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

~ Nalini Nadkarni

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

~ Robert Frost

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 healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

~ Henri Nouwen

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

~ William Blake

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

~ Jennifer Armintrout

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

~ Joel Kinnaman

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

~ Johann Georg Hamann

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.'

~ Rolf Harris

No one can tell you what to expect or can offer a guide to grief. Because every relationship is so unique, no two people grieve the same way. And you have no idea how you are going to grieve till you are grieving.

~ Alysia Reiner

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

~ F. Sionil José

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

~ Natasha Trethewey

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

~ Martha Beck

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

~ Martha Beck

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

~ Ron Fournier

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.

~ Margo Jefferson

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

~ Helen Garner

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

~ Menander

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

~ Meghan O'rourke