Grief Quotes

Ain't no shame in holding on to grief . . . as long as you make room for other things too.

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.

"To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
...
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.

We are not allowed this. We are allowed to be deeply into basketball, or Buddhism, or Star Trek, or jazz, but we are not allowed to be deeply sad. Grief is a thing that we are encouraged to “let go of,” to “move on from”...

It made me laugh, it made me feel drunk, it made me feel high with loss, in that tightrope kind of way of sadness and hysteria. And when you don't have ideas like that, it feels too messy to bear. It gave me great comfort. It was something I would repeat to myself, like a mantra. Because for some time it felt like we had lost everything. And those words, that idea, calmed me down.

You just want to be able to walk out of your house and turn your face to the sun and stumble down a corner where you have some memory, and you're not really allowed any of that.

Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

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

...that's the weird thing about grief. You can't prepare for it. You think you're gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.

Pain = regret of the past projected into potential negative futures. Otherwise it's just sensation. Being present = peace.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.

Clarice: What’s the worst thing about grief, John? The worst thing of all?
John Constantine: I don’t know. But it’s okay, because you’re about to tell me.
Clarice: It’s how quickly life picks up again. How soon you go back to fretting about mortgage, and holding silly grudges. Someone you loved is dead and it seems as if the world should end. But it doesn’t end. It doesn’t even change. That’s what’s unbearable.

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

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

I'm watching human grief - it's like offal in my mouth.

He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs.