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Grief Quotes

The nation wakes up yet again with grief and outrage that yet another Black American is a victim of excessive force…These shots pierce the soul of the nation…Equal justice has not been real for Black Americans and so many others. We are at an inflection point. We must dismantle systemic racism.

– Joe Biden

Demanding investigation after police shot unarmed black man Jacob Blake multiple times in back in front of his children.

Let me be clear, he did not come to pray. He did not come to express remorse or consolation, he did not come to share the grief or to provide hope to the thousands of young people who were gathered in the park that day.

– Mariann Budde

Episcopal Bishop of Washington on Donald Trump’s photo op at St. John’s Church near White House.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

– Hesiod

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

– Horace Mann

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

– Herman Melville

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

– Hugh Leonard

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

– Henry David Thoreau

Good grief, we’re getting offended by everything these days! People can’t say anything without offending somebody.

– Hillary Clinton

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

– Horace

It’s very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it’s a kind of raging against what’s happening.

– Helen Garner

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

– Gideon Welles

Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.

– James Buchan

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.

– Julian Barnes

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don’t have a full picture.

– Irving Kirsch

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

– Julian Barnes

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

– Isabel Allende

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they’re crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don’t make sense.

– Joan Didion

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.

– Henri Nouwen

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

– James Wolcott

If I talk about my father’s funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, ‘Being Dead,’ I’m not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I’m not going to tell you, and I’m certainly not going to tell my grief.

– Jim Crace

Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me – how really tenuous our sanity is.

– Joan Didion

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

– Brent Sexton

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing – and now to something very close to parody.

– John Podhoretz

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It’s an honest descent into darkness. And you can’t have the joy without the grief – it’s why we listen to Mozart’s ‘Requiem.’

– Andre Dubus III

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

– James Russell Lowell

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

– Alcaeus

Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

– Ann Hood

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans – in grief, as in defiance.

– Benjamin Netanyahu

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