In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward.
It's not life situations but our thoughts are the pilots of grief.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.
Silence is a cure for grief.
2.15 GRIEF All the grief of every man, Remove himself – he only can, For this grief that be within, Be caused by his own thinking. [110] - 2
The grief of children was unconditional, fueled by the implicit belief that it would last forever; for a child, grief was not grief unless it was eternal.
Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
A man without grief is not a man.
Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory. Again and again, grief holds the same few things.
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 l...
Common grief is lighter to bear.
Grief is light that is capable of counsel.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packaging it for TV specials sponsored by corporations selling detergent and running shoes, is to cheapen and devalue grief, to drain it of meaning. What we a...
The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I’ve always liked that phrase “He was visited by grief,” because that’s reall...
It is a grief to one beggar that there is another at the door.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Grief shared was grief lessened.
