Quotes About Grief

She is my mother," said Colin complainingly. "I don't see why she died. Sometimes I hate her for doing it.

who had lost her mother

bereavement; and now—an elderly man—

Granny sat down on the step and stared off into the trees. That girl right there, she was my only child. I have lost two husbands, one by death, the other by divorce, and I have lost my parents and my brothers and sisters. But nothing ever pierced me to the core like that little girl's dying. I know it wasn't your daddy's fault. I know I messed up by filling a report to Social Services. Is that what you want to here? Is that what it takes for you not to be mad at me?

She wasn't crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things he'd seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasn't that big a girl to hold all of it—to hold her brother's life and his death inside of her. To hold all his long-limbed raging tidal motion and all the loss of that.

I still can't talk about it," he said "Duck." Dirk touched his cheek "I remember, later, my mom trying to run into the water and I'm trying to hold her back and her hair and my tears are so bright that I'm blind. I knew she would have walked right into the ocean after him and kept going. In a way I wanted to go too.

My baby brother would never call Hex soft. Not Hex. And not me, either. Not anymore. Not any fucking more.

Your dad's dead. But you aren't, baby.

Her beloved twin sister was dead - murdered!

end of this painful story: a man possessed and maddened enough to write such letters, and a bereaved father receiving them, until at last he reached the point at which he refused to read any more.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.

Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.

She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?

We grieve for those we've lost, but it's the living that cause us the most pain....

I miss you, dad.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Grief is the price of victory

For now my grief is heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

There was the feeling in him then that his body had become the manifestation of some power he could no longer control. He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the stress of his city, following a track so familiar in his visions that it froze his heart with grief.

Nothing in the sadness at her death is too high a price to pay for the love we shared.

Paul heard his mother's grief and felt the emptiness within himself. I have no grief , he thought. Why? Why? He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

E la vittoria in quel giorno si cambiò in lutto per tutto il popolo, perché il popolo seppe, in quel giorno, che il re piangeva suo figlio.»