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Grief Quotes

97 quotes about grief. Every quote shows where it comes from and how far to trust it.

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With each loss, new buds of victory unfold in our hearts.

Ōsugi Sakae

Loss is a defending human experience. Nothing in the physical world lasts forever. Memory of what has been lost can be both ennobling and painful.

Michael Hamilton Morgan

Even when you’re ready for it, nothing sneaks up on you like grief.

Brad Meltzer The Escape Artist (2018)

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Lin Yutang Remarks of Famous People (1965)

He weights losses about twice as much as gains, which is normal.

Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

Here, southlander, you can't quit while you are winning. Better than when I'm losing.

Robert Jordan The Great Hunt (1990)

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long.

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven (1993)

Weep for what is lost forever.

Robert Jordan The Eye of the World (1990)

Nothing left to lose
Nothing left to fight

Neil Halstead

The death of a fighter is not a reason to mourn, if we believe, as we have always believed, as our people have believed and as revolutionaries of every era have believed, that no true man, no true revolutionary dies in vain.

Fidel Castro

Ah done been in sorrow's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.

Zora Neale Hurston Lucy in Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934)

My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.

Alexandre Dumas Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;
In some wise may come ending to my pain;
It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!
Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

William Morris The Earthly Paradise (1868)

Rioting and disturbances in the capitals and in many localities of Our Empire fill Our heart with great and heavy grief. The well-being of the Russian Sovereign is inseparable from the national well-being; the national sorrow is His sorrow.

Nicholas II of Russia

Spent, she thought that there was no place as unknown as grief. (p38)

Louise Erdrich The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001)

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

Scott Jurek Eat and Run (2012)

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

Publilius Syrus Disputed

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