Quotes about Grief

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Existence, after losing her, would be hell.

In every cloud, in every tree — filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women — my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

What have those lonely mountains worth revealing? More glory and more grief than I can tell:

There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly.

The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

If I were you, I'd go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog.

And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then!

For what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at nights, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

While I read, I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored

And my heart aches, in hopeless pain Exhausted with repinings vain, That I shall greet them ne'er again!

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.