Quotes About Grief

It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

Because I've lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it's like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I'd like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

Speaking of, her family is due in any minute to claim her body. What am I supposed to tell them when we can't give the body over? Again, I don't think 'oops' will quite cover it. (Tate)

It's been a full week since she left and all you've done is sulk like a dying cow(Kish) Dying cows don't sulk. (sin) How do you know? Do you make it a habit to hang around dying cows? (Kish)

I just know that I'm not willing to let anything happen to you. When Nynia died, I was so lost and cold, and I haven't been warm since. Not until I felt your hands on me. The only way I've been able to cope without you is to bury what I feel, but I can't seem to do that anymore. When I'm with you all I can do is feel and need. (Talon)

Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could beg or borrow.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

Fretting grief the enemy of life.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I spent the last week of Ryan's life in Indiana, Indianapolis, with Jeanne and Andrea, Jeanne, his mother, Andrea, his sister, and some other beautiful people who came. And it taught me a lesson.

My life closed twice before its close

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

They always prided themselves on looking youthful. "Forty's the new thirty," they'd joke. Until heartbreak and grief enter your life, and then forty's the new one hundred.

She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.

I've lost many, many friends through natural causes, through alcohol, through drugs, through AIDS. And every time I lose a friend or a loved one, it reminds me how great life is.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Grief-stricken. Stricken is right; it is as though you had been felled. Knocked to the ground; pitched out of life and into something else.