Quotes on “grief”

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.

Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.