grief Quotes

“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

topic:happiness choice grief

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:time grief loss

“Against my better judgment, I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young...”

― J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

topic:grief

“Grief makes one hour ten.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

topic:pain sorrow grief

“He was so happy that this grieved him more than it would have done at any other time.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

topic:happiness grief

“The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. To me at least, who gave it to you.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:death grief

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:good suffering grief

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:love darkness danger grief

“I am sure care's an enemy to life.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

topic:life grief

“The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters’s death was Augustus Waters.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death loneliness grief

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