As entrepreneurs, we experience a wide range of emotions. We celebrate our successes and mourn our failures. But one emotion that is often overlooked is grief. Grief can be caused by many things, including the loss of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the failure of a business.Though it can be difficult to deal with, grief is an important emotion that should not be ignored. In this blog post, I have compiled a list of grief quotes to help you understand and cope with this emotion. I hope you find them helpful.
The best grief quotes
1. Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain–grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba
2. Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. — R. A. Salvatore
3. The robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. — William Shakespeare
4. It is a fact that the majority of a man’s griefs comes about through lack of self–control. — Napoleon Hill
5. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. — William Shakespeare
6. The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy. — William Shakespeare
7. In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him. — Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven
8. Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance — depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
9. A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. — William Shakespeare
10. Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Oivd
11. He’d lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. — Nicholas Sparks
12. It were a grief so brief to part with thee.Farewell. — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
13. As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others. — Omar Khayyam
14. I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both. — Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
15. She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain. — Michelle Latiolais, Widow: Stories
16. People talk about the pain of grief, but I don’t know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled. — Veronica Roth
17. A happy person is not without sorrow or grief. Happiness is the acceptance of pain, not the lack of it. — Vironika Tugaleva
18. This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself. — Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy’s Meditations on Joy
19. Grief and resilience live together. — Michelle Obama
20. Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. — William Shakespeare
21. We can’t choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we’re given. — Paulo Coelho
22. Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. — William Shakespeare
23. The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. — Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too
24. Blast my record out the windows of your Honda Accord. And if anyone gives you grief, you look them right in the eye and tell them Rick Ross told you wealth begins in the heart. — Rick Ross
25. When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind oppress, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. — William Shakespeare
26. Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died. — Robert E. Neale, The Art of Dying
27. Closure is just as delusive–it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
28. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. — William Shakespeare
29. We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain. — Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
30. The gallantry of his grief did put me into a towering passion. — William Shakespeare
31. Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing. — Mia Farrow, What Falls Away: A Memoir
32. Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief–everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. — F. Sionil Jose
34. I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief. — Rosamund Hodge, Gilded Ashes
35. Jesus came emotional and raw, scandalously gracious. I want to be like Him. — Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
36. There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief. — Wasif Ali Wasif
37. There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. — Sappho
38. Closure is just as delusive–it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz, The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
39. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried. — Megan Devine, It’s Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
40. Horizontal (human–centered) grief is much less concerned with being broken and more concerned with being busted. — Matt Chandler, Into the Great Outdoors
41. Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts… You can’t let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control your future decisions. — Robert H. Schuller
42. Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. — Pliny the Elder
43. With time, grief has a way of slipping down in the crevices of your heart. It never really leaves; it just makes room for more. — Nancy B. Brewer, Beyond Sandy Ridge
44. Immature strategy is the cause of grief’. — Miyamoto Musashi
45. She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
46. There are some men above grief and some men below it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. A sword held in vengeance only leads to grief. — Pritesh Patil, Vengeance: A Sting In Every Tale
48. When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event… — Maxim Gorky
49. You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence. — Rumi
50. …determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted. — L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Conclusion
Grief is a natural and necessary part of life, but it can still be overwhelming. When you’re struggling to make sense of your pain, it can help to hear the words of others who have gone through similar experiences. We hope that these quotes about grief can provide comfort and perspective during your journey. Lean on the words of those who have gone before you and remember: you are not alone.