Quotes about Grief
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
- Euripides
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
- Publilius Syrus
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
- Isabel Allende
There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
- Soren Kierkegaard
Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
- Andrew Jackson
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- George Eliot
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
- William Faulkner
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
- Charles Spurgeon
When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.
- Steven Curtis Chapman
God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
- Richard Sibbes
There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
- Timothy Keller