Quotes about Grief

What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.