Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that's going to be like and what your going to feel like and it doesn't prepare you.
Richie Sambora

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean de la Bruyere

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Grief causes suffering and disease.
Daniel D. Palmer

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Keanu Reeves

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

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
Anne Grant

Grief is a process, not a state.
Anne Grant

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.
Michelle Williams

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
James Martineau

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Anne Grant

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth II

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

Grief, and an estate, is joy understood.
Gregory Nunn

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust