Quotes About Grief

Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

It can be frightening. I think, 'I don't want to go.' But I give myself room to grieve.

I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.

Servicemembers deserve time to grieve the loss of their child instead of being forced to return to work.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.

But when you're grieving, when you're going through something difficult, you lose your appetite. You don't want to eat. People are also always commenting on your weight, while at the same time forcing you to eat, so it's very complicated.

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

On September 22, 2002, my mama, Buhlar Hinton, died. When the guards told me, I gave up. She'd been deteriorating for a long time - I believe she died of a broken heart.

I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

A hundred hundred heartbeats... whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world—it's everywhere, but we just don't see it.

Grief is a common denominator through which God's love can flow. — Mary Fran Heitzman —

Grief is a common denominator through which God's love can flow.

Sometimes love just keeps a grieving person company. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton —

Easter would be coming soon, but her mother was still dead.