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  • Grief is itself a medicine. -- William Cowper
  • Grief is a process, not a state. -- Anne Grant
  • No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. -- Anne Roiphe
  • There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving
  • I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -- Robert Fulghum
  • Grief is not graceful. -- Mariette Hartley
  • Grief isn't all tears. -- Patti Smith
  • Grief causes suffering and disease. -- Daniel D. Palmer
  • Grief shared was grief lessened. -- Karen Marie Moning
  • Grief, he said, is carnivorous. -- Dennis Lehane
  • Grief is a circular staircase. -- Linda Pastan
  • Grief makes one hour ten. -- William Shakespeare
  • Grief is a species of idleness. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Grief is the price of victory. -- Frank Herbert
  • Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac. -- Will Ferrell
  • Grief never mended no broken bones. -- Charles Dickens
  • Grief changes shape, but it never ends. -- Keanu Reeves
  • Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul. -- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
  • Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. -- Sophocles
  • Grief doesn't change you. It reveals you. -- John Green
  • Grief, it seemed, was a physical place. -- Kim Edwards
  • Grief is like sinking, like being buried. -- Lauren Oliver
  • Grief and passion make a volatile mix. -- Marianne Curley
  • Grief dares us to love once more. -- Terry Tempest Williams
  • Grief is as contagious as a yawn. -- Sue Grafton
  • Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. -- Philip James Bailey
  • Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. -- James Martineau
  • Grief alone can teach us what is man. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Grief is love turned into an eternal missing -- Rosamund Lupton
  • Grief is a hone to a hard mind. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Grief is the price we pay for love -- Elizabeth II
  • Grief is an expression that you loved well. -- Elizabeth Lesser
  • Grief brims itself and flows away in tears. -- Ovid
  • Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings. -- Robert Bly
  • Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving. -- Billy Graham
  • Grief is the price we pay for love. -- Queen Elizabeth II
  • Grief is love not wanting to let go. -- Earl A Grollman
  • Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting -- Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Grief diminishes when it has nothing to grow upon. -- Publilius Syrus
  • Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief -- Alison Bechdel
  • Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief. -- Alison Bechdel
  • Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments... -- Thomas Lynch
  • Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. -- John Green
  • Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance. -- Leigh Bardugo
  • Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. -- Philemon
  • Grief is a gift, something you have to earn. -- Peter Høeg
  • Grief is what tells you who you are alone. -- Gail Caldwell
  • Grief can be an incredible source of energy. For good. -- Peter Gould
  • Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. -- Dominic Cooper
  • Grief is put to flight and assuaged by generous draughts. -- Ovid
  • Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge. -- Lord Byron
  • Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul. -- Jacqueline Carey
  • there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss. -- Orson Scott Card
  • Grief was like a seizure that shook me like a storm. -- Patricia Cornwell
  • Grief is a wound that needs attention in order to heal. -- Judy Tatelbaum
  • Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be. -- Joan Didion
  • Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival. -- Faraaz Kazi
  • Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn. -- J. Aleksandr Wootton
  • Grief releases love and it also instills a profound sense of connection. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world. -- Rashi
  • Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved. -- Elizabeth Lesser
  • Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.' -- Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo. -- Hisham Matar
  • Grief is fantastical, and loves the dead, And the apparel of the grave. -- Lord Byron
  • Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes. -- Thomas de Quincey
  • Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water. -- Sue Grafton
  • Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Grief can choke you. Itâ??s dangerous, something else you have to beat. -- Lauren Kate
  • Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. -- William Congreve
  • Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise. -- Patti Callahan Henry
  • Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving. -- Elizabeth McCracken
  • Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status. -- Greg Bear
  • Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. -- Veronica Roth
  • Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death. -- Margaret Deland
  • Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. -- Anna Quindlen
  • You need to face the pain and the fear and walk through the Grief. -- Phil McGraw
  • Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. -- George Herbert
  • Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness. -- Deshwal Sachin
  • Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time. -- Susan Mallery
  • Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. -- Dean Koontz
  • Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out. -- Mel Lawrenz
  • Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. -- Joan Didion
  • Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance. -- Helen Humphreys
  • Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart -- John Adams
  • Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  • Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ... -- Gail Caldwell
  • Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end. -- Ann Hood
  • In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. -- Thomas Gray
  • Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people. -- Thomas Horn
  • Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit. -- William Shakespeare
  • Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. -- Herman Melville
  • Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. -- Anthony Rapp
  • Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying. -- Richard Bach
  • Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. -- Denise Levertov
  • Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away. -- V.C. Andrews
  • It has been the dream of very few men to rule the entire world. - Dr. Grief -- Anthony Horowitz
  • Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath. -- Jandy Nelson
  • Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down. -- Lea Michele
  • Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. -- Simon Van Booy
  • Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it. -- Louise Hay
  • Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place. -- Sarah Dessen
  • He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy. -- Chanakya
  • Those things that hurt, instruct. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Sorrow makes us all children again. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. -- Dan Rather
  • It is in the darkness that one finds the light. -- Meister Eckhart
  • Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- Rumi
  • Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall. -- Nancy Byrd Turner
  • Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. -- Samuel Johnson
  • People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them. -- Gail Sheehy
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