Quotes About Grief

Death of a wife is the biggest Silent Treatment you'll ever receive, so be good to her.

Dianne Marie Teresa Cole

The more profound the loss, the more poignant the grief

They were neither of them in a high sphere of life. Rhoda was a farmer's daughter, the only one among a troop of great rough brothers, some younger, some older than herself. She was not more than twelve years of age, and yet she had been for a year the little mistress of the family, for her mother had long been dead.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death.       The

Time is a physician that heals every grief.

But death is intimacy walking backward. We are crazed with grief when she, who once permitted us, leaves to us the only recollection.

For a lover who dies, no matter how forgotten, will take somewhat of you to the grave.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones. Too many of our people died and were buried in places unknown to anyone, not even their relatives. It happened to many of my friends. Where do you put the tombstones for Meyerhold or Tukhachevsky? Only music can do that for them. Looking back, I see nothing but ruins, only mountains of corpses... I'm not exaggerating, I mean mountains... I'm sad, I'm grieving all the time.

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.

What other half-buried things did I know about my own grief and wife that, if asked about directly, I could surrender? That for several years I kept Clare's mobile phone active because I didn't want anyone else to take her phone number. That during the time before I released the number, I sent her texts from work, only to come home and read them on the phone that was always charging by her side of the bed.

Colgó, miró hacia el jardín, vio contra el muro los brotecitos verdes, duros como tomates jóvenes, y mientras miraba por la ventana, delante de las camelias al borde de la floración, se apoderó de ella una pena espantosa, una pena que le impedía moverse, que atravesaba el tiempo, que venía, le pareció, de muy lejos, de las horas vacías de la niñez, de una espera que nunca había cesado. Le cortó el aliento hasta tal punto que no podía respirar.

At such times as that, when the TV cameras begin creeping up on a mother weeping at her son's coffin, journalists should wonder where the profession is heading.

36 Mas Jesús, oyendo lo que decían, dijo al jefe de la sinagoga: No temas; ten fe solamente. 37 Y no permitió que le siguiese ninguno, fuera de Pedro, y Santiago, y Juan el hermano de Santiago. 38 Llegados que fueron a casa del jefe de la sinagoga, ve la confusión, y los grandes lloros y alaridos de aquella gente. 39 Y entrando, les dice: ¿De qué se afligen tánto, y lloran? La muchacha no está muerta, sino dormida.

He wishes Marie were here, that's all. No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word "heartache

Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.

Poetry gives the griever not release from grief but companionship in grief. Poetry embodies the complexity of feelings at their most intense and entangled, and therefore offers . . . the company of tears.

Death of a part is agony - from "The Red Branch

Jane has been dead for more than two decades. Earlier this year I grieved for her in a way I had never grieved before. At eighty-six, I was sick and thought I was dying. Twenty and twenty-one years ago, every day of her dying for eighteen months, I stayed by her side. It was miserable that Jane should die so young, and it was redemptive that I could be with her every hour of every day. Last February I grieved again, this time that she would not sit over me as I died.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.