211 Grief Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to. Margo Price

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons. Mark Billingham

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

Anger Grief Guilt Situation Out Allowing Takes Sting Children Show

To me, death is dark, pain, grief. Mary Roach

Death Me Grief Dark Pain

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning. Michael Chabon

Time Grief Memory Speak Remember Father First Tossed Blanket Cheering Read First Time His Up Mourning Being Subtle Description Tearing

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is. Miriam Toews

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

Happiness Grief Sense Emotion Between Spontaneity Dichotomy Humans

The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief. Natasha Trethewey

Myself Grief People Mother Losing First Sense Way Months Bad Tried Pretty About Poem Poems Only Poetry Could Write Feel Wrote Make First Thing Losses Did So Many People The First Thing Hold After Place Turning Many Found Thing

My parents moved to England with that immigrant ethos of self-betterment, but I don't think they expected the kind of grief they experienced. Naveen Andrews

Grief Parents Think Immigrant Kind Expected Moved Experienced Ethos England

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. Nevil Shute

God Grief Men Vain Reckless Aircraft Thousand Wills Unavoidable More Foolish Lazy Come Because Than May Crash Themselves

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. Nigella Lawson

Time You Grief Will Sympathy Around Always Still Go Grieving

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. Orson Scott Card

Angry Grief People Sometimes Made Other Loathsome Critics Rather Having Various Detest Put Feel Also Course Proud Hear Up Wonder Times While Who Groups Why

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

Strength Grief Suppressed Forced Within Multiply

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

Depression Grief First Emotion Volcanic Outward Came Wanted Film

I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had suppressed my grief about my mother dying. In retrospect I realise I started writing 'Mandy' as a sort of antidote to that, to sort of express those emotions, to purge that grief. Panos Cosmatos

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Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. Paul Lynde

Funny Politics Grief Hate Politicians Think Thinking Our Lies Generalities Talk Because Caused Loved Really Dad Awful

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Social media forces girls to bear witness to painful realities of relationship that were previously hidden from view. It is a new kind of TMI, or 'too much information': publicly posted photographs of an outing or party you did not attend, or a personal web page like Formspring, can send a girl into paroxysms of anxiety and grief. Rachel Simmons

Relationship You Grief Anxiety Witness Social Media Too Much Girl Party Too Hidden Kind Photographs Posted Outing Web Bear Attend New Like Forces New Kind Were Did Personal Send Information Realities Social Much Page View Painful Media Publicly

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you. Richie Sambora

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Blast my record out the windows of your Honda Accord. And if anyone gives you grief, you look them right in the eye and tell them Rick Ross told you wealth begins in the heart. Rick Ross

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. Ron Fournier

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