Top 1200 Grief And Mourning Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Vengeance is just a lazy form of grief.

I've been moving a little to the music while I worked ...and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I've been holding myself...Mostly I've been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it's coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely...It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there's a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Work makes a callus against grief.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

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

It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.

Joy lives concealed in grief.

Grief and passion make a volatile mix.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Joy, when it is excessive, overcomes as much as grief.

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

Ah, grief makes us precise!

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

Grief is love not wanting to let go.

No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

Time takes away the grief of men.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.

Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grief never mended no broken bones.

... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

We are turning our grief into winnable actions.

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief

That Woman is in love with her own grief.

Grief alone can teach us what is man.

Only poetry can address grief.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.

Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.