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Grief Quotes

Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I've never heard.

We should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary. What a loss.I'm devastated.

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

[Unplugged] was also the cheapest to produce and required the least amount of preparation and work. But if you want to know what it actually cost me, go to Ripley and visit the grave of my son.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief - so how fear?

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

A still-born son is superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

The nearest friends can goWith anyone to death, comes so far shortThey might as well not try to go at all.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

So much of promised usefulness to one's country, and of bright hopes for one's self and friends, have rarely been so suddenly dashed, as in his fall.