Quotes about Grief
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.
— Joseph Addison
Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
— JRR Tolkien
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.
— Michael Jordan
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me.
— Teresa of Avila
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
— Henry Ford
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
— Cicero
After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.
— AW Pink
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
— Publilius Syrus
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
— Virginia Woolf
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
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.
— Johannes Tauler