Grief Quotes

My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now...

Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to st...

...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic yo...

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, do...

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be pr...

Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, th...

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed.They remember the tree that died, the gull t...

My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would sti...

We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's ...

...nor can we know ahead of the fact the unending absence that follows, the void, the very opposite ...

People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have...

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I h...

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very ...

There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, y...

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person...

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that ...

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking th...

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking t...

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up cr...

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you ...

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing somethin...

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there ...

She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and exc...

There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys...

There will come a day, I promise you, when the thought of your son, or daughter, or your wife or you...

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me,...

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and ...

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little ...

Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender ...

Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, howeve...

It didn't help when he told David that his mother would always be with him, even if he couldn't see ...

When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind ca...

Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly m...

Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its gui...

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

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...