G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.”
Source: Rise of the Wolf
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all.”
Source: A Botanical Daughter
“Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.”
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)
“Grief can be hard to deal with. Take the time you need to grieve, find ways to heal, and move on. Never let grief stop you from finding healing. Start dreaming.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
“Grief can be wide and feel bottomless sometimes, but eventually, it begins to subside, to grow into something useful.”
“Grief can be your companion in search for a meaning...As you grieve, your teardrops water the seeds...that someday grow into trees....”
“Grief can choke you. It’s dangerous, something else you have to beat.”
Source: Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series
“Grief can cloud judgment, blinding us to the answers we seek.”
Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
“Grief can destroy you—or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. Or you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn’t allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it’s over and you’re alone, you begin to see it wasn’t just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can’t get off your knees for a long time, you’re driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. “And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
Source: Odd Hours
“Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin to see that it wasn't just a movie and a dinner together, not just watching sunsets together, not just scrubbing a floor or washing dishes together or worrying over a high electric bill. It was everything, it was the why of life, every event and precious moment of it. The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss. And the ache is always there, but one day not the emptiness, because to nurture the emptiness, to take solace in it, is to disrespect the gift of life.”
Source: Odd Hours
“Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.”
Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
“Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
Source: Following the Equator:
“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
“Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.”
Source: Reader's digest condensed books
“Grief cannot be fixed because it is not a problem to solve; it is a deep emotional response to loss. The idea of 'healing' from grief often feels inadequate because it suggests an end point, a time when the pain will disappear. But the truth is, we don't heal from grief in the traditional sense. Instead, we heal through grief. We allow ourselves to feel the waves of sorrow, to confront the emptiness, and to adapt to life without the person we have lost.”
“Grief causes suffering and disease.”
“Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal
with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”
“Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting”
“Grief comes and goes, it ebbs and flows. I think one of the lessons of this for me is that there's no one way to grieve. Everyone does it in their own way, in their own time, and we all process life and its challenges and its ups and downs as they come.”
“Grief comes in tides, dark shadows in deep,
A sudden, silent gulf where timeless treasures sleep,
A hole, it tears, a hole that will never fill,
And begs us to keep living, when joy has come to an end.
The dark, dark path, deep in the woods,
With heavy hearts, we walk, burnt in grief.
In the achiest of ache, the quiet, pushing pain,
for memories rise, like sunlight after rain.
The times we once shared, a thread of radiant gold,
Stretched, not torn, a story yet to be told,
The grief-wet eyes, in the dark, dark days,
Now they see the dawn-filled sky,
for deep in the soul, a flower has opened,
in the stream of tears, watering the soil.
For those truly loved, no death can touch,
those once held, no death can steal,
They live in the deep, in the flowering of memories.”
“Grief comes to us in all shapes, knocking down doors of all sizes, the unanticipated guest that it is. We lose life, lose livelihood. Dreams die and bodies deteriorate with disease. Wedding bands go missing and houses fold in foreclosure. We hold our breath waiting for the bad news, waiting to hear that the world will be ripped from under our feet. We, all of us, cradle unnamed grief, crying into corners when the world isn’t looking as we wait for someone—anyone—to say it’s not too much to want to make sense of it all.”
Source: Matter of Little Losses: Finding Grace to Grieve the Big (and Small) Things
“Grief, Cordelia would realize during that night and the next day, was like drowning. Sometimes one would surface from the dark water: a period of brief lucidity and calmness, during which ordinary tasks might be accomplished. During which one's behavior was, presumably, normal, and it was possible to hold a conversation.
The rest of the time, one was pulled deep below the water. There was no lucidity, only panic and terror, only her mind screaming incoherently, only the sensation of dying. Of not being able to breathe.
She would remember the time later as flashes of light in the dark, moments when she surfaced, when the making of memories was possible, if incomplete.”
Source: Chain of Thorns
“Grief could be like a wolf tearing your insides, and you would do anything to make it stop.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“Grief could not be brushed aside by a declaration of love, but it could be soothed by it.”
Source: Peregrine
“Grief could take the form of violence too, could give a false sense of permission, erase the world around, and that was what frightened Clare most about violence, how transferable it was.”
Source: The Third Hotel
“Grief dares us to love once more.”
“Grief, deep as a well, opens inside her.
What is the point in planting seeds?
Why tend them? Why help them grow?
Everything crumbles in the end.
Everything dies.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.”
“Grief did not quieten the world's demands, and I was thankful to be kept busy.”
Source: The Witchfinder's Sister
“Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon.”
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Grief does not change you. It reveals you. And herein lies the gift that cannot die. It changes the course of your life forever. If you allow yourself the chance to feel it for as long as you need to - even if it is for the rest of your life - you will be guided by it. You will become someone it would have been impossible for you to be, and in this way your loved one lives on, in you”
“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”
“Grief does not end.
It shifts.
It softens, vanishes, returns.
It curls up in your ribs
and then startles you awake.
The one who walks the Way
does not wait for a clean horizon.
They walk without needing to finish.
They rest without shame.”
Source: The Tao of Grief
“Grief does not exist within a vacuum, but it also does not exist within just one life. It spreads out and affects the people “above you” in your family tree and the people who will come after you or “below you.” Grief also impacts entire races, genders, generations, and communities, and those beliefs about grief and the stories we tell ourselves about whether or not grief is acceptable, what’s at the root cause of grief, and whether or not we can recover from that grief have an enormous impact on how we give ourselves permission to grieve, whether we consciously acknowledge it or not.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.”
“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.”
Source: Nocturne: A Play
“Grief does not kill the light...it reveals it.....Agony does not kill the ecstasy....it unfolds it......Dark does not extinguish the Dawn...it unwinds it.....”
“Grief does not leave us;
It becomes part of the soul’s architecture,
a quiet gold vein running through stone.
It is the beauty in the cracks,
The light that seeps through
where we thought we were broken.”
Source: Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work
“Grief does not make us weak,' Cristina said firmly. 'It makes us human. How could you comfort Dru, or Ty, or Jules, if you didn't know what they missed about her? Sympathy is common. Knowing the exact shape of the hole someone's loss leaves in your heart is rare.”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.
Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost…”
“Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.”
“Grief does not want to be held, blocked, or braced against. Grief does not want to be quarantined, scrutinized, or shamed into disappearing. Just like every other emotion, grief wants to be able to move through you, free from judgment, criticism, or camouflage.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief does not want to force itself into a life, a body, or an identity it has outgrown. Grief does not want to take shelter in a new life, a new body, or a new identity it is not ready to call home.
Grief wants to be given time, space, and support in the in-between. It wants to be given room to help you decide who you are in the aftermath of loss without the pressure to decide RIGHT NOW.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief does that—makes you run and hide in places it can’t find you so easily.
But now, that grief had melted away, like a candle burning gently through the night.
And she was ready to go back.
That’s how it works for most people.
That’s how it’s supposed to be.
You grieve. You heal. You move on.
But his candle… his candle had steel-clad, it seemed.”
Source: Ink On My Skin!
“Grief doesn’t adhere to a predetermined timeline. It’s not a condition to overcome but rather a process to be integrated into our lives, something we learn to coexist with.”