Quotes About Grief

Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief.

Undertakers were great ones for persuading grieving folk to spend money they didn't have. That way, debt could follow you even into the Land of the Dead.

The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them.

The child outliving the parents is the only happy story us human beings get.

She wrote she heard them hammering nails all day long and that it was like living next to a coffin maker after a plague. When

Even after you lost someone, it turned out you still had a relationship with that person, one you needed to tend to as you would tend to a relationship with any living friend or relative.

The idea that her death should precede his was worse than intolerable, it was obscene.

They glowed in the darkness, all of them: pale shining wisps with rings of light where their eyes belonged, as if they were the dead—ghosts risen from their graves—not Gilbert Cline. Harper felt their grief as a slow current of cold water, and herself as a leaf revolving upon it. As

You won't do anyone any good if you drop dead of exhaustion," she said to Harper once. I won't do anyone any good if I don't, Harper imagined saying back. I'm not doing anyone any good, one way or another. But she didn't say it. It would've been grief talking, and it was unfair to unload her sadness

I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that.

To weep was a kind of luxury; the dead felt no loss, wept for no one and nothing.

It's like . . . a house after someone moves out. The house is still there, but all their stuff is gone. Someone took away the furniture and rolled up the rugs. The movers crated all the parts of Shelly Beukes up and shipped her away. There's just not much left of her anymore except the empty house.

I've already visited the lost and lonely place at the end of the world, and all I know is, the only way to keep going is to do the things the people you loved would've wanted you to do.

They are both silent, doubt and grief and fury scuttling between them like beetles in search of a meal. Tetsuo and the girl stare at each other with such deep familiarity that Key feels forgotten, alone—almost ashamed of the dreams that have kept her alive for a decade. They have never felt so hopeless, or so false. "Her name is Key," Tetsuo says, in something like defeat. He turns away, though he makes no move to leave. "She will be your new caretaker.

Don't you dare write any romantic songs about springtime Aubrey. It would kill me, and dying once is bad enough.

She (Hestizo) nodded, and for the moment neither of them spoke. There were times when no amount of speech could convey the heart's grief, and silence was the most articulate response. After a time, she felt Bennis tentatively reaching for her hand -Hestizo Trace

Resentment, anger, and fear all were gone. Only sadness remained. She gathered her collar against the wind and returned to her car in the waning light of the November day.

Several fans around the world committed suicide.

Grief has a way of bringing out the sweetness in life.

the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God.

His skin is the color of the leaves, the most beautiful ones I collect and blow into piles around my headstone.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I wish there was a word that meant goodbye for someone who was already gone.