Grief Quotes

"Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience."

"Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day."

"I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother."

"I can't speak for others, but I miss my father."

"My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one."

"After 9/11, you kind of didn't want to open up your heart to more pain."

"Time is a physician that heals every grief."

Diphilus

"Have you news of my boy Jack? Not this tide. When d'you think that he'll come back? Not with this wind blowing, and this tide."

Rudyard Kipling

"Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won."

Duke of Wellington

"In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons."

Herodotus

"Have you news of my boy Jack? Not this tide."

Rudyard Kipling

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

Colin Murray Parkes

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler

"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim."

Vicki Harrison

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"Grief is itself a medicine."

William Cowper

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

Voltaire

"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."

Anne Roiphe

"Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love."

Terri St. Cloud

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."

Aeschylus

"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

John Green

"Grief is just love with no place to go."

Jamie Anderson

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."

"The only cure for grief is to grieve."

Earl Grollman

"Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it."

Arthur Golden