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.

1. Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief. — Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
2. I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. — Veronica Roth
3. Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. … One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. — Victor Hugo
4. Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain–grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba
5. The past is never dead. It’s not even past — if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.
6. If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. — Meghan O’Rourke, The Long Goodbye
7. Writers are in many ways like demi–gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing. — Steven Lake
8. There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity. — Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
9. Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs would never have reasons for fear, or grief, or hope, or anger. — Martha C. Nussbaum
10. Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friendsor a share in their grief? — Sophocles, Ajax
11. 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
12. Immature strategy is the cause of grief’. — Miyamoto Musashi
13. Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief. — Stevie Wonder
14. Grief is not a problem to be solved; it’s an experience to be carried. — Megan Devine
15. It happened. It was awful. You aren’t perfect. That’s all there is. Don’t confuse your grief with guilt. — Veronica Roth
16. Don’t run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone. — Rumi
17. Do not turn to prayer only in times of grief, suffering and rage. Make prayer a habit whether you are blissful or sorrowful, serene or upset, clear or confused. — Pooja Ruprell
18. You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both. — William Shakespeare
19. In the end I didn’t know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief. — Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness
20. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
21. The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. — Stephen Colbert
22. Grief is one illness that defies all remedies — it must ever run its course.
23. Grief is itself a med’cine. — William Cowper
24. Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief. — Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
25. Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
26. If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal. — Meghan O’Rourke, The Long Goodbye
27. If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble. — Moliere
28. Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip — to touch anything is torture.
29. Grief never really stops. It is something you carry with you in different ways. — Megan Devine
30. Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. In proving foresight may be vain: The best–laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! — Robert Burns
32. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies–loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt–every time they come around. — Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
33. I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, ’tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget! — William Shakespeare
34. Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. — Stephen King
35. Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug. — Stephen King
36. I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy. — Veronica Roth
37. Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with, some deep sorrow. — Sylvia Plath
38. The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief. — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
39. If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. Immature strategy is the cause of grief’. — Miyamoto Musashi
41. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice. — Veronica Roth
42. Great pain is repetitive. Grief is repetitive. — Sherman Alexie, You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
43. The body remembers who we are supposed to be. And in this there is grief. — Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
44. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
46. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die. — Tessa Gratton, The Strange Maid
48. Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. People in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn’t make it real. — Mitch Albom
50. Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man. — Miyamoto Musashi