Best grief & died Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.”

Book:Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

Source: Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers: How to Cope with Losing Someone You Love

“Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.”

Might Joy Father Grief Died Divides

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume

“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”

“In that time and by God's will there died my mother, who was a great hindrance unto me in following the way of God; my husband died likewise, and in a short time there also died all my children. And because I had commenced to follow the aforesaid way and had prayed God that He would rid me of them, I had great consolation of their deaths, albeit I did also feel some grief.”

Way Feels Children Mother Grief Family Husband Died Following Gods Will My Children My Husband Consolation Short Time Hindrance

Book:The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

Source: The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno

“Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.”

“When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.”

Christ Grief Weak Died Grieving Great Love Weak Faith

Book:The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World

Source: The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World

“The heart of grief, its most difficult challenge, is not "letting go" of those who have died but instead making the transition from loving in presence to loving in separation.”

Heart Difficult Challenges Grief Letting Go Died Separation Transition Difficult Challenges Not Letting Go Those Who Have Died

Author:Thomas Attig

“Through the process of specifically writing this memoir, there was so much reckoning that I had to do. It was very difficult. It doesn't erase anything that happened, but I think that it was healthy for me to do it. The teenage self-loathing that I suffered from all of a sudden found itself turned into rapids with my grief after my brother died. I turned it inwards. In the same way that my mom processes her grief and her problems. This project, as a memoir, has helped me funnel it outwards.”

“I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.”

Knows Littles Mother Bits Hurt Grief Hell Little Bit Died Wave Survived It Hurts Passed Away Respite Deep Grief Mother Passed Away

Author:Emily Saliers

“I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her trainers must have thrilled when the mother, without prompting, began to sign her newborn. Baby, drink milk. Baby, play ball. And when the baby died, the mother stood over the body, her wrinkled hands moving with animal grace, forming again and again the words: Baby, come hug, Baby come hug, fluent now in the language of grief.”

Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”

Ifs Mean Happens Fighting Left Strong Easy Grief Tears Died Breaths Greed Hills Revelations Somewhere Else Expendables

Author:Paul Monette

“The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.”

“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”

Men Might Dies Memories Common Grief Secret Emotional Mass Weight Died Longing Terror Gravity Cowardice Embarrassed Tangible Shameful Baggage Emotional Baggage

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.”

Children States Lasts America Remember Forget United Grief United States Fire Honor Died Phones Passing Passings Patriotic Funeral Ashes September United States Of America Phone Calls

Author:George W. Bush

“Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.”

Ifs Believe Children Has Beens I Believe Grief Vision Fire Arms Devil Direct Machines Died Instruments Horrible Adam Suggestions Cannons

Author:Martin Luther

“Grieving is a journey that teaches us how to love in a new way now that our loved one is no longer with us. Consciously remembering those who have died is the key that opens the hearts, that allows us to love them in new ways.”

“But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.”

Feels Long Hard Grief Ultimate Died Unrequited Love Love Someone Unrequited

Author:Rosamund Lupton

“Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.”

Women Grief Hair Husband Capacity Gold Thirds Died Extraordinary Affection

Author:Oscar Wilde

“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.”

“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”

Ifs Knows Soul Sleep Grief Sad Died Suicide Pills Bleeding Sleeping Pills

Author:Clifford Odets

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