Quotes about Grief

Sorrow makes us all children again.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

Settled on the carriage seat, Olivia drew in a deep breath, the first in what felt like five years. she knew it was wrong, what she was feeling. Because of widow of only a week shouldn't wish to dance a jig. But God help her, that's precisely what part of her wanted to do. Not on the grave of her recently deceased husband, of course-that would be considered rude. Just off to the side would suffice.

And she found the weight of grief at missing him eased somewhat by dwelling on what a blessing he'd been and how much poorer her life would be if she'd never known him.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.

There will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

He believed that faith gives health. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing by pointing out the Man of Resignation, and to transform the grief that contemplates the grave by showing it the grief that looks up to the stars.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.