Quotes about Grief

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

For if I grieve you, who is left to cheer me but those whom I have grieved?

Now if anyone has caused grief, he has not grieved me but all of you—to some degree, not to overstate it.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with grief?

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Some people think the theists get off easy by offering eternal life, but in my experience it is awfully difficult to reconcile the death of a child with the idea of a loving God. As a Christian, I knew what to say, but I don't think my words made much of a difference. What mattered most was just being there and sharing the hurt.