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Grief Quotes
Words for the weight of loss and the slow work of healing.
Several lines resist the idea of grief as something to conquer once, describing it instead as a shifting, day-to-day experience. Read more in our Healing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
- Blunder
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
- Doses
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
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Grief is a process, not a state.
- Sadness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you have to deal with grief in the sense that you have to recognize that you have it, and say that it's OK to have all the sadness.
- Fewest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020