Top Grief Quotes

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delig...

Grief Definition

(a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.

(a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.

(a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.

Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.

No longer married, suddenly I was . From Latin, the name means emptied. Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our live...

I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness d...

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief...

There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experience...

It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole...

I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.

Can anyone actually find a replacement for a lost loved one?Isn't there a difference between things and human beings?

I have become a sour woman. I take no joy in meat nor mead, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place...

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

In his grief over the loss of a dog, a little boy stands for the first time on tiptoe, peering into the rueful morrow of manhood. After this most inconsolable of sorrows there is nothing life can do t...

Families that feel together, heal together.

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.

A drop of sense can save you an ocean of tears.

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb re...

A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it.