Quotes About Grief

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

I'm in mourning for my life.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

Chris Lighty was a huge portion of my actual career. It's difficult to adjust to not have someone around that's in your life, in your life.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

I saw all my new mom friends go through a sadness other than postpartum depression: it is grieving the loss of your old self, of who you used to be.

Sarah's face is bleak. "I'm so sorry, Jerome. So, so sorry. If I could, I would hug you. Bring you back to life." Her body leans forward like she thinks she