211 Grief Quotes for You to Enjoy

For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain. Karyn Kusama

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They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible. Lynn Redgrave

Life Good Me Grief Cancer My Life Overwhelming Incredible Though Through Occasionally Still Hit Going Even Including Now Treatment

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. Mary Schmich

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

Grief Pain Must Borne Calmness Suffered

I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.' Rolf Harris

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Samuel Johnson

Grief Only Divert Attempt Fresh Any Where Irritates

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Simon Van Booy

Christmas Grief Doors Way Finds Somehow Cliches Without Tinsel Room

Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion. Abby Johnson

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I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be. Adam Silvera

Grief Adult Written Expect Fiction

One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books. Alane Ferguson

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Everyone deals with grief in their own way. Alex Roe

Grief Own Everyone Way Deals

The night that George Zimmerman was acquitted, I think, for black people all over the world, there was a collective feeling of incredible grief and incredible rage. And that verdict not only let George Zimmerman go home to his family, but it sent a message to black people everywhere that our lives did not matter. Alicia Garza

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I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about. Alton Brown

When someone dies instantly, then I think the well of grief and disbelief all mixed in with it is unfathomable. And when murder is involved, that just takes it into a whole new place. There is an extra dimension you just can't compute or deal with. Andrew Buchan

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional. Andrew Strauss

Time Journey Grief Bit Evolving Am Very Functional

I can do glamour, but I can also play something like I did in the play 'Wild Justice,' where I was demented with grief and anger, and there was snot coming out of my nose, and my clothes were all over the place. Anita Dobson

Justice Anger Grief Clothes Wild Out Something Glamour Over Demented Like Also Coming Were Did Nose Where Place Play

In my experience as an actor over so many years, I don't know when I have been touched so deeply on so many levels as I have been by 'The Leftovers' in my three years there. It is a profound exploration of life, of grief, of loss. Ann Dowd

Life Grief Experience Three Touched Over Know Been Years Loss Leftovers So Many Years Exploration Many Many Levels Actor Deeply Levels Profound

'Hard Hit,' a YA collection of poems, explores the country of grief and survival. Mark, a 16-year-old boy and skilled pitcher, must confront the coming death of his beloved father with the help of his friends, family, baseball, and an idiosyncratic belief in God. I used my own experience of my parents' deaths to inform this journey. Ann Turner

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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle. Barton Booth

Grief Rage Miracle Passions Either

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. Ben Marcus

Grief Big Thomas Like Read Doses Richard

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

Life Grief Instant Indulgence Blunder Agony

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

Grief Band More Instruments Than Pity Speaks Sweetly

The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States. Caitlin Doughty

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