Grief Quotes
Quotes about Grief
38 quotes
- “The wife watched her neighbor get fat over the next year. The Germans have a word for that. Kummerspeck. Literally, grie...” — Jenny Offill
- “To lose a sibling is to lose the one different from you. There’s no one now against whom to say: But I am like this. I a...” — Sofia Samatar
- “There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as ...” — Kate Kerrigan
- “Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of g...” — Megan Devine
- “This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itse...” — Wendy Beckett
- “Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount ...” — Joshua Gaylord
- “He didn't sleep. His mother was too close. He could see every crease on her face, every worry line he'd ever given her.” — Claire Zorn
- “So it is with grief where, if all goes well, can come a strengthening of the inner world, of memory and definition.” — Jeremy Holmes
- “Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire” — S.m. Boyce
- “it's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.” — Liz Fichera
- “I'm bored of it all being miserable. I just want something to change. There's nothing wrong with that is there?” — Sharon Duggal
- “Nothing can make death easier,' Cala said, 'but silence can make it harder.' 'Speaking helps not,' Maia said.” — Katherine Addison
- “What peace it must be to know that someone is yours, no matter what - it is ordained, can never be otherwise.” — Ariel Levy
- “I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.” — Neil Jordan
- “Some losses never heal you just learn to carry the burden and shed a tear every now and then” — Tina Gayle
- “On the way home I felt a great and simple sadness. I missed my dad. I missed him very much.” — Helen Macdonald
- “Give yourself a set period of time to grieve and heal before focusing on financial matters.” — Lois P. Frankel
- “.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.” — Leslie A. Gordon
- “But remember this. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.” — Jonathan Odell
- “Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?” — Priscille Sibley
- “... being with people who don't understand is worse than being alone with her grief.” — Kerry Cohen Hoffmann
- “I see you in the grass,Running through the snow,But where you have gone,I cannot go.” — Helen Pearson
- “A lie doesn't become dangerous only with exposure; it is toxic, however well buried.” — Decca Aitkenhead
- “Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.” — Antoine De Rivarol
- “You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.” — Sarah Hall
- “Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.” — Dana Fuller Ross
- “May the beauty of the flowers remind us of the beauty of our loved one's spirit” — Steve Butler
- “It was possible, I found, to both mourn a loss and yet be grateful it happened.” — Jennifer S. Brown
- “Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.” — Gilly Macmillan
- “There is nothing I can do to keep time from wedging more of itself between us.” — Will Kostakis
- “How will I go on without her?!The answer was very simple: one day at a time.” — Jeff Erno
- “You know nothing about my grief", said Anastasia. " So speak nothing of it.” — Claire Legrand
- “One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering.” — Leslie A. Gordon
- “You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.” — Christina Rasmussen
- “When I lost my son, I became a citizen of a country I never knew existed.” — Stephanie Oakes
- “Each person is alone with his pain, even when others share the same fate.” — Dorthe Binkert
- “Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.” — Marceline Loridan-ivens
- “My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.” — Candace Robinson