Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. Votes: 3
Jacqueline NovogratzGrief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. Votes: 3
William CongreveGrief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise. Votes: 3
Patti Callahan HenryGrief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. Votes: 3
Elizabeth McCrackenGrief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. Votes: 3
Greg BearLife has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness. Votes: 3
Deshwal SachinGrief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time. Votes: 3
Susan MalleryGuilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. Votes: 3
Dean KoontzGrief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield. Votes: 3
Bill VaughanGrief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. Votes: 3
Anne Morrow LindberghGrief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. Votes: 3
Helen HumphreysGrief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. Votes: 3
Pedro Calderon de la BarcaGrief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliGrief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. Votes: 3
Ann HoodIn buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. Votes: 3
Thomas GrayGrief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people. Votes: 3
Thomas HornGrief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit. Votes: 3
William ShakespeareBoth the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. Votes: 3
Herman MelvilleGrief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliGrief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. Votes: 3
Anthony RappGrief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. Votes: 3
Denise LevertovIt has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief Votes: 3
Anthony HorowitzGrief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. Votes: 3
Jandy NelsonGrief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. Votes: 3
C. S. LewisGrief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Votes: 3
Jean de la BruyereGrief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down. Votes: 3
Lea MicheleGrief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Votes: 3
Simon Van BooyGrief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. Votes: 3
Louise HayGrief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. Votes: 3
Sarah DessenYouth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. Votes: 2
Nicholas SparksAnd remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy. Votes: 2
Fran DrescherSuppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. Votes: 2
OvidHappiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Votes: 2
Marcel ProustYou care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. Votes: 2
J. K. RowlingWhat we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Votes: 2
Helen KellerIn the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Votes: 2
Robert Green IngersollOf all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest Votes: 1
Samuel JohnsonYou may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs still am I king of those Votes: 1
William ShakespearePoor mortals we who crave to have it so - our grief to be deathless when we are dead Votes: 1
Perses of ThebesThe habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again. Votes: 0
W. H. AudenMusic exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain. Votes: 0
John ArmstrongAcknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder. Votes: 0
Elizabeth McCrackenThe heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard. Votes: 0
Charles Stuart CalverleyIf the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. Votes: 0
Meghan O'RourkeThere has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment. Votes: 0
Henry FlaglerThe violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWhat is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineTotal grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire. Votes: 0
Sylvia Townsend WarnerAnd I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. Votes: 0
J. D. SalingerHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Votes: 0
Alexandre DumasA lot of songs are inspiration and help people through pain, grief and loss. Votes: 0
Olivia Newton-JohnThere's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child. Votes: 0
David LaChapellebe a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultThere is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriItâs a strange griefâ¦to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. Votes: 0
Alessandro BariccoThere's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is. Votes: 0
Lisa Samson... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them Votes: 0
Carlos CastanedaOne must go through periods of numbness that are harder to bear than grief. Votes: 0
Anne Morrow LindberghNo greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerShe was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldTis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. Votes: 0
Hugo GrotiusBut love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. Votes: 0
Miriam ToewsThe moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas. Votes: 0
Fauja SinghNo journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days. Votes: 0
Jojo MoyesGood things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger. Votes: 0
Megan HartReceding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldOft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareMy life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping." Votes: 0
Richelle E. GoodrichSymmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. Votes: 0
Victor HugoThe hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else. Votes: 0
Gideon WellesRespect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal Votes: 0
American Pregnancy AssociationKeep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening" so your life will stay fresh. Votes: 0
RumiTo say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal. Votes: 0
Marie BashkirtseffNothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief. Votes: 0
Francis BaconIf ever I said in grief or pride, I'd tired of honest things, I lied. Votes: 0
Edna St. Vincent MillayThe greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work. Votes: 0
Bess Streeter AldrichWhat they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part. Votes: 0
Gail Caldwella young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief Votes: 0
William ShakespeareIn grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again. Votes: 0
Laurie GrahamCall me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief. Votes: 0
Anna AkhmatovaI don't think that anyone can age in a conscious way and not experience grief. Votes: 0
Marianne WilliamsonWhoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises Votes: 0
RumiSilence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. Votes: 0
Melina MarchettaOne's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. Votes: 0
SophoclesI had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate. Votes: 0
Cheryl StrayedOf all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonFor every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering. Votes: 0
Katie AshleySometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Votes: 0
Megan HartThere are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief. Votes: 0
Wasif Ali WasifCinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life. Votes: 0
Lily JamesFaded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart! Votes: 0
Alfred AustinLife is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. Votes: 0
Henry RothIt's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyBecause I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief. Votes: 0
Clark GreggHumans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness. Votes: 0
Morena BaccarinCare draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain. Votes: 0
Michael DraytonThe grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing. Votes: 0
Gertrude AthertonIf folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.] Votes: 0
George HerbertThe darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyWhen I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts. Votes: 0
Alanis MorissetteTime apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced. Votes: 0
Stephen KingIs there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? Votes: 0
William ShakespeareThey say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareI grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonMoney can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch. Votes: 0
James Lee BurkeMany a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are. Votes: 0
Friedrich SchillerNo grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThere is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonAh, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleySome grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareWhat was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. Votes: 0
P. D. JamesLife is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardClosure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. Votes: 0
Stephen GroszOne inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man. Votes: 0
Francois RabelaisThere is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. Votes: 0
OvidOnly mundanes say they're sorry when what they mean is "I share your grief,"' Jace observed. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareIn the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay. Votes: 0
Veronica RothThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. Votes: 0
Cormac McCarthyMy sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love. Votes: 0
Kathy Lette...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters. Votes: 0
William FaulknerThere are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit. Votes: 0
PythagorasLighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune. Votes: 0
HoraceI do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. Votes: 0
Judith McNaughtPerhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Votes: 0
Madeline MillerA mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanThe husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief. Votes: 0
Beth OrtonWho ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeWeep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Votes: 0
Robert GreeneWe hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. Votes: 0
Berthold AuerbachSo it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. Votes: 0
E.A. BucchianeriRing out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonSorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. Votes: 0
George HerbertNever ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long. Votes: 0
MenanderHe is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief. Votes: 0
Lauren OliverI feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it. Votes: 0
Hugh LeonardYou have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] Votes: 0
PlautusI will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman. Votes: 0
Richard HarrisOne flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness. Votes: 0
Geoffrey ChaucerAs an individual, you are entitled to your time of grief, process of grief, and right to grieve. Votes: 0
Asa Don BrownHappy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief. Votes: 0
Nora RobertsThere is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. Votes: 0
George EliotThere is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotWhat I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have. Votes: 0
Robert BlyIt is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroHis grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom. Votes: 0
J. R. R. TolkienDon't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibWhat need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?. Votes: 0
John MiltonHired mourners at a funeral say and do - A little more than they whose grief is true Votes: 0
HoraceLife is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaMy head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass. Votes: 0
Federico Garcia LorcaMy grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. Votes: 0
Alice HoffmanHigh honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief. Votes: 0
EuripidesIf it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness? Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultYou don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Votes: 0
Nigella LawsonHer grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face. Votes: 0
Adam BerlinIf it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness~? Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultBut grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart. Votes: 0
Elizabeth LesserIt is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. Votes: 0
Sarah Orne JewettTo no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusThe world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it. Votes: 0
Auliq IceI wake up in that state of grief when you can tell you've been mourning even in your sleep. Votes: 0
Carolyn ParkhurstAt the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope Votes: 0
Lloyd AlexanderThere is no such thing as wasonly is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. Votes: 0
William FaulknerI work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. Votes: 0
Inga MuscioNothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief. Votes: 0
Gore VidalDuring my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child. Votes: 0
Namie AmuroIn grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? Votes: 0
Hannah MoreI know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. Votes: 0
Holly BlackI suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.
FynnSome pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
Marianne WilliamsonThe soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
Steven EriksonI have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
Veronica RothA brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
Alanis MorissetteIf we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.
John ClaypoolBoth she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets â neither of us have any.
Vincent Van GoghGive sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William ShakespeareNot everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.
Jodi PicoultHad any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
Kate MortonThe display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Seneca the Younger