Grief/Sorrow Quotes

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I would never trust a man who didn't cry; he wouldn't be human.

- Norman Schwartzkopf

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

- Leo Buscaglia

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, not to anticipate the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

- Buddha

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh....

- Kahlil Gibran

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

- Hafiz of Persia

I bid you awake at dawn and discover I have gone my way and left you free.

- Sara Teasdale

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

- Rabbi Tarfon

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

- Eudora Welty

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

- Mark Twain

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

- Kahlil Gibran

Grief can awaken us to new values and new and deeper appreciations. Grief can cause us to reprioritize things in our lives, to recognize what's really important and put it first. Grief can heighten our gratitude as we cease taking the gifts life bestows on us for granted. Grief can give us the wisdom of being with death. Grief can make death the companion on our left who guides us and gives us advice.

None of this growth makes the loss good and worthwhile, but it is the good that comes out of the bad.

- Roger Bertschausen

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Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

- Joseph Campbell

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

- Erich Fromm

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

- Alexandre Dumas

I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted wind the bled shades of twilight, gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint.

- Marge Piercy

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We have to believe that even the briefest of human connections can heal. Otherwise, life is unbearable.

- Agate Nesaule

Do not surrender your grief so quickly
Let it cut more deeply
Let it ferment and season you
As few human or divine ingredients can.

- Hafiz of Persia

Grief is itself a medicine.

- William Cowper

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. (attributed)

- Talmud

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

- Dorothy Parker

My life closed twice before its close;
    It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
    A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
    As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
    And all we need of hell.

- Emily Dickinson