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

Quotes by Yance Ford

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

Quotes by Yance Ford

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Quotes by Xenophon

A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

Quotes by William Shawcross

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Quotes by William Congreve

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Quotes by Walker Percy

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

Quotes by Thomas Horn

It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.

Quotes by Terri Irwin

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Quotes by Terence

More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.

Quotes by Susan Stewart

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.

Quotes by Susan Stewart

Long before I ever got incarcerated, I should've been able to access services that help me deal with the grief and the loss of my son, that help me deal with the trauma, the abuse that I experienced as a child.

Quotes by Susan Burton

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Quotes by Sue Miller

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.

Quotes by Stephen Colbert

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

Quotes by Russell M. Nelson

Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I’ve done a lot of therapy and it’s great to be back on the horse.

Quotes by Roland Orzabal

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

Quotes by Rachel Simmons

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Quotes by Queen Elizabeth II

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

Quotes by Pierre Corneille

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

Quotes by Peter Temple

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.

Quotes by Peter Akinola

Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

Quotes by Perianne Boring

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

Quotes by Paula Yates

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quotes by Paul Engle

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

Quotes by Panos Cosmatos

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

Quotes by Paddy Ashdown

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Quotes by Ovid

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Quotes by Ovid

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Quotes by Nigella Lawson

It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

Quotes by Nicos Anastasiades

Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

Quotes by Nevil Shute

I got plenty of grief for 'Blackwater,' because in the books, there's this huge chain across the harbor that features prominently in the battle. And we simply weren't able to do it with our budget and do it any justice, so we had to lose it.

Quotes by Neil Marshall

I can laugh at my own grief.

Quotes by Neena Gupta

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

Quotes by Namie Amuro

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Quotes by Morena Baccarin

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Quotes by Moliere

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Quotes by Mike Mills

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

Quotes by Menander

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

Quotes by Mary Astell

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Quotes by Martha Beck

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Quotes by Margaret Anderson

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

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even with my father and brother dying, I didn't quite process the grief.

Quotes by Marc Forster

I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or loss, is taking care of our bodies.

Quotes by Mandy Ingber

Each organ is related to an emotion, and the lungs are related to grief. When you clear your lungs, you eliminate grief and sadness.

Quotes by Mandy Ingber

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

Quotes by Malcolm Turnbull

As much sorrow and grief as came from 9/11, there have also come positives.

Quotes by Mack Wilberg

Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

Quotes by M. J. Rose

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

Quotes by Laurie Graham

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

Quotes by Kevin Rudd

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

Quotes by Kevin Gates

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

With grief, you have reason to despair; it's a human thing.

Quotes by Kay Redfield Jamison

I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it.

Quotes by Justin Kurzel

Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it.

Quotes by Julie Plec

Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.

Quotes by Julian Barnes

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

Quotes by Julian Barnes

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Quotes by Joy Page

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Quotes by Jon Hamm

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

Quotes by John Millington Synge

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

Quotes by John Cho

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Quotes by Johann Georg Hamann

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

Quotes by James Wolcott

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

Quotes by James Martineau

In minor crises, the preacher can extract himself emotionally and allow others to express grief and fear and doubt while he remains strong.

Quotes by James A. Forbes

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Quotes by Hugh Leonard

I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

Quotes by Hozier

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Quotes by Hesiod

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Quotes by Henri Nouwen

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.

Quotes by Gregory Nunn

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

Quotes by Gerry Adams

The only cure for grief is action.

Quotes by George Henry Lewes

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Quotes by Franz Schubert

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Quotes by Erin Gray

The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain.

Quotes by Ephraim Mirvis

'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.

Quotes by Emily V. Gordon

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Quotes by Dominic Cooper

Time takes away the grief of men.

Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost.

Quotes by Denis Leary

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Quotes by David LaChapelle

It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.

Quotes by Darin Strauss

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Quotes by Daniel D. Palmer

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

Quotes by Dan Chaon

Grief is exhausting.

Quotes by Ciaran Hinds

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

Quotes by Carrie Brownstein

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

Quotes by Caitriona Balfe

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

C.S. Lewis

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.

Quotes by Bryan Procter

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Quotes by Brent Sexton

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

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