"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."
Read quote
7 likes
Grief quotes
Grief
2.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Grief
Browse quotes that often appear alongside grief — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Grief quotes (page 18 of 104)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it."
Read quote
7 likes
"People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experiences of grief, longing, rage and love remain the same."
Read quote
7 likes
"I was given life because it was my time, and now I take leave of it according to the same law. Content with the natural sequence of these events, I am touched neither by joy nor by grief. I am simply hanging in the air ... incapable of freeing myself, tied by the threads of things."
Read quote
7 likes
"If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room."
Read quote
7 likes
"There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful."
Read quote
7 likes
"From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?"
Read quote
7 likes
"Ifit be a thing external that causes thy grief, know, that it is not that properly that doth cause it, but thine own conceit and opinion concerning the thing: which thou mayest rid thyself of, when thou wilt."
Read quote
7 likes
"Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong."
Read quote
7 likes
"Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond."
Read quote
7 likes
"Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch."
Read quote
7 likes
"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
Read quote
7 likes
"Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears."
Read quote
7 likes
"Early in life, the world divides crudely into those who have had sex and those who haven't. Later, into those who have known love, and those who haven't. Later still - at least, if we are lucky (or, on the other hand, unlucky) - it divides into those who have endured grief, and those who haven't. These divisions are absolute; they are tropics we cross."
Read quote
7 likes
"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born."
Read quote
7 likes
"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."
Read quote
7 likes
"People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them."
Read quote
6 likes
"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
Read quote
6 likes
"Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone. But grief returns with the revolving year."
Read quote
6 likes
"Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief."
Read quote
6 likes