Grief Quotes

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like cr...

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the...

That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, ...

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only perso...

Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w...

Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families ...

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose he...

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitte...

There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have ...

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

I went to a tattoo parlor and had YES written onto the palm of my left hand, and NO onto my right pa...

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, ...

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating ...

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she s...

She took the posters downtown that afternoon. She filled a rolling suitcase with them ... she took a...

Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we ...

I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myse...

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; ...

... Now to die of griefwould mean, I'm afraid, to die belatedly, while latecomersare unwelcome, part...

We're in a free fall into the future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast. ...

Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apath...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alo...

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but...

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It’s not like in the comics…I think you nee...

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are capable of weeping, tears are often ou...

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable b...

In this way unwittingly the Widow-to-Be is assuring her husband’s death—his doom. Even as she believ...

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis...

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live...

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, espe...

Perhaps grief, which destroys all patterns, destroys even more: the belief that any patterns exist. ...

(on grief) And you do come out of it, that’s true. After a year, after five. But you don’t come out ...

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or ju...

Throw off your grief,' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or...

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

Yes, she had changed her mind after sixty years and she would like to see George. I want you to find...

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patc...

You said move on, where do I go?

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t...

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...

Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the fu...

You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though som...

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...

The very nastiest and coarsest, I can't tell you. It is not grief, not dullness, but much worse. It ...

He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not com...

Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-h...

Ah, grief makes us precise!

Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look...

There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would li...

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first le...

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

That had day changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had l...

Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessing...

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

And we mustn't lose our sense of humor," Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadl...

Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't ...

Her bed felt huge and empty now, and when she slept, she did so with her arm around a pillow. She dr...

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

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

For in this world of ours where everything withers, everything perishes, there is a thing that decay...

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. Wh...

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the ...

... when she called to mind all this utter and crushing misery that had come upon my aunts' old musi...

In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dyi...

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never di...

I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years a...

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a ...

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much hu...

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

...trust in God could impose an additional burden on good people slammed to their knees by some sens...

That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dyingI went closer,and I did not die.Sur...

I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel i...

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man w...

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have rest...

It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave...

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A sc...

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student ...

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his ...

Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I’m going through, fear and pai...

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever s...

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and ...

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, w...

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And...