Grief Quotes - page 6

Grief is natural,' she said. 'Overcoming it is a matter of choice. (Jeffrey Eugenides)
He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door. View quote
Etgar Keret
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly. View quote
Cornelia Funke
In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again. View quote
Laurie Graham
I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. View quote
Lauren Oliver
Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. View quote
Ann Brashares
I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter. View quote
Neil Jordan
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain. View quote
Anne Grant
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. (Anne Grant)
Grief is a process, not a state. View quote
Anne Grant
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life. View quote
Anne Roiphe
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. View quote
Aunjanue Ellis
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. View quote
Brent Sexton
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. View quote
Ben Marcus
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. View quote
Dominic Cooper
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. View quote
Emmylou Harris
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. View quote
Erin Gray
I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm. View quote
Inga Muscio
The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity. (Jennifer Armintrout)
The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.' View quote
Jennifer Grant
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. View quote
Jon Hamm
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. View quote
Joy Page
I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren. View quote
Kathleen Battle