Quotes about Grief

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;

I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.

Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.

Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.

I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.

You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works.