Top Grief Quotes
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Dean Inge
Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II
During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
Namie Amuro
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner 
81% of people like this quote
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
Dean Inge 
79% of people like this quote
During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
Namie Amuro 
68% of people like this quote
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
64% of people like this quote
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry 
63% of people like this quote
To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Alcaeus 
60% of people like this quote
What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
Ovid 
59% of people like this quote
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere 
59% of people like this quote
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Franz Schubert 
58% of people like this quote
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