Grief Quotes

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

No journey out of grief was straightforward. There would be good days and bad days.

Sometimes for our sanity own sanity we just have to look at the bigger picture.

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Come on, get up, get up, you can't just sit! But he was still crying and that had to be finished.

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child.

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?

My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.

Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same.

Grief lets you indulge in it, so that it can feed itself.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.

God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

When we start rating each other’s lives and afflictions, we lose a bit of our humanity, compassion and perspective.

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on.

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief.

The women cried with one another, and it didn't seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

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

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

Throw off your grief, ' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

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

Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

Sometimes I am all right. Is this what they call letting go? I have let go, if letting go means I am all right sometimes.

Jesus might not think so, but maybe the dead are best left that way.

Life has only three states-Happiness, Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

Grief is like a roller coaster. Somedays we feel up and other days we feel down.

Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they're wrong - it is a sign of healing.

The road of grief is often long and lonely and many stones need to be moved out of the way, but it is not without its lighter moments.

Most of us go through this journey of grief at different speeds