CURATED COLLECTION

Coping With Grief

Grief is not something you get over — it's something you carry, and these words help carry it.

50 quotes found

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Grief, I now know, is not a project with a conclusion.

—Hisham MatarNovelist

Digital Age ERA • MENA

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

—Harriet Beecher StoweAbolitionist & Author

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To be a poet in Central America is to carry the scars of history.

—Claribel AlegríaPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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To live is to remember. To remember is to grieve.

—Madeleine ThienNovelist

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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Death teaches us what we could not learn in life.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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

—Marcel ProustNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Grief makes us citizens of a country we never wished to visit.

—Hisham MatarNovelist

Digital Age ERA • MENA

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Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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We are all haunted by something we did not choose.

—Fatima BhuttoAuthor & Journalist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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I carry the ocean in my arms, and a mouthful of dirt.

—Warsan ShirePoet

Digital Age ERA • East Africa

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Though grief shadows my path, my spirit finds strength to endure each dawn.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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We are guilty for all we did not love enough.

—Gabriela MistralPoet, Diplomat & Author

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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We believe the one we love cannot be truly lost to us.

—Yaa GyasiNovelist

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Time does not heal all wounds. It only teaches us to live with them.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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The dead are never truly dead as long as someone, somewhere, still speaks their name.

—Tomás Eloy MartínezJournalist & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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This world of dew is only a world of dew — and yet, and yet.

—Kobayashi IssaPoet

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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At a certain point I lost track of you. You needed me to live somewhere else.

—Agha Shahid AliPoet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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To be a Bengali is to be nostalgic for something you've never known.

—Jhumpa LahiriAuthor

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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Children carry their parents’ unspoken pains, sometimes without knowing why.

—Akwaeke EmeziAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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My mother tongue is the house I carry on my back.

—Meena AlexanderPoet & Memoirist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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