G Quotes
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“Grief isn’t linear.
It comes in waves. Some are tsunamis—early on, most of them are. They knock your legs away again and again and again. You never have time to get back to your feet. Over time, the waves get smaller. It doesn’t get easier, just more manageable—but right after you lose someone, where you’re learning your new reality without them in it, it’s like being on the beach as a little kid, and you see the water coming, and you know that no matter what you do, you can’t get out of the way in time.
What people don’t tell you is that sometimes, the waves can get real big again for no reason. They come out of nowhere and steal your breath, and it hurts just as bad, even after years. Decades.”
Source: Harper's Landing
“Grief isn’t linear, it isn’t logical. There’s no structure or civility to it. It grabs you when you least expect it and it digs in its nails until you succumb.”
Source: The Golden Couple
“Grief isn’t only for the dead…sometimes we grieve for the living too.”
“Grief isn't all tears.”
“Grief! It is the ungiven love, the sadness of it that keeps haunting, changing forms along the way, but remaining unending.”
“Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.”
“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.”
Source: Raphael: Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty
“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”
Source: An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir
“Grief leaves nobody untouched, tearing apart everybody. Some drown forever, and some swim through it, and those who do come out unconquerable.”
“Grief lingers -
a heavy chain rattling in the quiet,
a burden carried from hand to hand,
generation to generation,
as if pain were an inheritance
we do not know how to refuse.”
Source: Obey the Moon: 1995–2025, A Collected Work Vol. II
“Grief literally changes and rearranges the cells of our bodies. Our brains rewire, our nerves fire us up and settle us down, and our immune systems do everything they can to protect us from stress. When our loved one dies, our bodies feel it—from the immediate impact to the lasting effects. Grief leaves a visible and invisible impression on our lives, in our lungs, in our brains, and in our hearts. Everyone who has ever grieved is, at least partially, made up of grief.”
Source: Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“Grief looks, feels, and shows up differently to each person. Just like no two losses are alike, no two griefs are alike, either. You cannot know the full depth of another person’s experience and they cannot know the full depth of yours.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
Source: In the Country of Men
“Grief made you selfish; engulfed as you were in your own pain, it was hard to remember the others were suffering too.”
Source: Maybe This Time
“Grief makes a tunnel of our lives, and it is all too easy to los sight of the other people in the darkness with us - to wish they weren't there, so their loss would stop rubbing up against ours.”
“Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.”
Source: The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
“Grief makes one hour ten.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Grief makes time feel soft. Like film peeled off a reel. Like maybe nothing ever happened the way you thought.”
Source: Returning My Face: A Chilling Sci-Fi Thriller Where Someone Wants to Erase You and Live the Life They Always Wanted
“Grief makes you a strange kind of collector.
Of last texts,
of receipts,
of songs he skipped on the playlist.
Memory is cruel.
It returns in detail.
And I hold him in artefacts
proof that we happened.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.”
Source: Three Sisters
“Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. With a Memoir of the Author, and Notes, by ... R. A. Willmott
“Grief might be easy
if there wasn't still
such beauty--would be far
simpler if the silver
maple didn't thrust
its leaves into flame,
trusting that spring
will find it again.”
Source: The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
“grief moves like the moon”
Source: Tell Me Another Story: Poems of You and Me
“Grief, my dear, is love's bittersweet encore—a poignant ovation to the bonds we held dear. As we mourn, we unravel the threads of affection woven so passionately, for what else could wrench our hearts so but the love we cherished deeply?”
“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother couldn’t be there anymore. She explained through choking sobs that without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”
Source: The Strength of the Few
“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one. Some psychiatrists see mourning and creativity as the perfect marriage, the thought processes of one neatly complementing the other. A child’s contradictory impulses to both acknowledge and deny a parent’s death represents precisely the type of rich ambiguity that inspires artistic expression.”
Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“Grief never ends, but we find a way to walk in the light someone has left behind, rather than living in pain's shadow.”
Source: Small Worlds
“Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.”
“Grief never leaves, but life layers itself on top of the pain”
Source: Notes from the Burning Age
“Grief never leaves one’s soul. You grow around it, like a flower pushing roots around rocky ground to survive. You are still the same person, you’ve just evolved around your experiences. You’ll bloom again, but only if you keep trying.”
Source: Vengeance and Legends
“Grief never mended no broken bones.”
“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
Source: Flowers in the Attic
“Grief no more needs a solution than love needs a solution.”
Source: It's OK That You're Not OK
“Grief, oh god, the weight of it. Depression was hollow, sadness was vacant. Neither was anything like this.”
Source: The Atlas Complex
“Grief only hurts because I loved.”
Source: Lover Girl
“Grief orbits the heart. Some days the circle is greater. Those are the good days. You have room to move and dance and breathe. Some days the circle is tighter. Those are the hard ones.”
“Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that can take a lifetime to exhaust.”
Source: Fools Rush In: A True Story of War and Redemption
“Grief rained in the depths for ages, but now it is a field of flowers.”
“Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?”
“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.”
Source: Pinky Promise?
“Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“Grief reminds us, with some violence, that our selves are unbounded, and also that this reminder of unboundedness leads to the very edge of the abyss.”
Source: We, The Heartbroken
“Grief returns with the revolving year.
- Adonais”
Source: Percy Bysshe Shelley: An Anthology
“Grief reunites you with what you've lost. It's a merging; you go with the loved thing or person that's going away. You follow it a far as you can go.
But finally,the grief goes away and you phase back into the world. Without him.
And you can accept that. What the hell choice is there? You cry, you continue to cry, because you don't ever completely come back from where you went with him -- a fragment broken off your pulsing, pumping heart is there still. A cut that never heals.
And if, when it happens to you over and over again in life, too much of your heart does finally go away, then you can't feel grief any more. And then you yourself are ready to die. You'll walk up the inclined ladder and someone else will remain behind grieving for you.”
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“Grief reveals the sacred, and reminds us of what truly matters.”
“Grief ripples out and sends powerful tremors through our foundation, through our hobbies, through our loved ones, and through our minds. For the first time in our lives, we can- not compartmentalize the hard, the bad, or the sad. There’s nowhere to tuck it away because every single aspect of our lives is infected with and tainted by grief.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.”
Source: Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels
“Grief’s a weird animal at the best of times. It’s even weirder when you think it’s a dead certainty (pardon the pun), but then it disappears only to come hurtling right back at you. It’s like this bungee jump of emotions. You get jolted all over the place. It gives you this sick feeling in your stomach, makes you jittery and wobbly, plays havoc with your sleep patterns.”
Source: How the Penguins Saved Veronica