Quotes About Grief

In durance vile here must I wake and weep,And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower sae early.

Nature's law,That man was made to mourn.

If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.

Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.

But it was my first evidence that Diane lived in a world even bigger than the Big House, a world where grief and joy moved as ponderously as tides, with the weight of an ocean behind them.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

Care for the living. I'll weep for the dead later. - Perrin Aybara

She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.

Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.

It should, Daigian said. Eben is dead. Would you want to forget your pain if you lost that hulking giant of yours? Have your feelings for him cutaway like some spoiled chunk of flesh in an otherwise good roast? Nynaeve opened her mouth but stopped. Would she? It wasn't that simple—her feelings for Lan were genuine, and not due to a bond. He was her husband, and she loved him.

Aan'allein morirá el día que sepa que habéis muerto.

Sighing, she sat back down again. "Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.

Goza de lo que tienes. Regocíjate por lo que puedes salvar, y no llores la muerte de tu gente demasiado tiempo.»

At the sight of her, sadness and loss rolled over him, worse

I just want my brother back.-Daryl (to Maryl) the Walking Dead S3

I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.

She's dead, Rick. My daughter is dead... But you know what? We all are. We're all dead -you, me, Carol, Lori, Dale- everyone. The only difference between us and Julie is that she doesn't have to put up with all the bullshit we do. She's resting, she's got no troubles on her mind - nothing creeping out every corner trying to kill her. My little girl is at peace. Seems to me that ain't something to be sad about.

Hey, Mags. Um - how are you holding up? I don't think I'm going to love you anymore. What's the point? You are just going to die like everyone else...

The deaths in this series are never taken lightly, they're never done with a sense of glee. They weigh on me the same way they weigh on you. These characters are very real to me, and their deaths are upsetting even to me. ( The Walking Dead #167: A Certain Doom)

No, we are not greater than he, nor should we suppose that fellowship with him who was well acquainted with grief will come through a life of ease. As the apostle Peter counseled us: Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy (1 Peter 4:12-13).

And so virtually every night for four and a half years, writing condolence letters and reading about these mostly young men and women, I wept.

But old Mr. Sandeen, who was the father of one of the dead kids, saw him back in the crowd and while the clods were still bouncing off the coffin lids Mr. Sandeen pushed back to him and grabbed him by the hand and lifted up one arm above his head and said, loud, "Oh, God, I am punished for accepting iniquity and voting against an honest man!