Quotes About Grief

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But i felt I understood it now.

A lover should die after a long lifetime. I lost Hitoshi at the age of twenty, and I suffered from it so much that I felt as if my own life had stopped. The night he died, my soul went away to some other place and I couldn't bring it back. It was impossible to see the world as I had before. My brain ebbed and flowed, unstable, and I passed the days in a relentless state of dull oppression.

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity.

When my grandmother died, time died, too, in this apartment.

Rituals are more important than we think. Not for the dead, but I think it's the best way to help ourselves accept what happened, and draw a line under it.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

I felt that I was the only person alive and moving in a world brought to a stop. Houses always feel like that after someone has died.

Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable.

The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of my hand. It had been a long while since I'd experienced a fall so clear and crisp.

Until Eriko's death my relationship with Yuichi had been laughing and carefree, but under the surface it had been growing more and more complicated. The times of great happiness and great sorrow were too intense; it was impossible to reconcile them with the routine of daily life.

Flowers and light, hope and excitement all suddenly seemed like things that were very distant from me, and I was trapped inside a deep, putrid, and bloody darkness.

I crawled back under the covers, still staring at that cold-looking, powerful snowstorm outside. My cheeks burned. Eriko was no more. Watching that scene, I really knew it for the first time. No matter how it turned out with Yuichi and me, no matter how long or beautiful a life I would live, I would never see her again.

my mother disappeared from my life forever.

I had never cried this way in my life. As the hot tears poured out, I remembered that I had never had a proper cry over my grandmother's death. I had a feeling that I wasn't crying over any one sad thing, but rather for many.

I wondered whether that was the difference between having lost a father and lost a husband.

My dad never meant to die and leave us, and my mother didn't really want to hurt me, and if I'd had my way we'd all have lived together as a family for as long as we wanted.

Bu?n l?m. Th??ng l?m. Ai oán. D??i m? sâu ng??i ?âu còn là ng??i. Nhìn nhau. Hi?u nhau mà không làm gì ???c cho nhau.

They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.

Emptiness did that to a person. Her insides were a big black hole where dreams of her mother had been.

When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life.

he didn't look as much like a user as a man who had lost someone near and dear. She let it go. Wasn't that the lesson of the week? Anger accomplished nothing. Denial was a crutch.

Accept what you can't change by changing what you can't accept. My father may have died nearly in front of my daughter's nose, but I won't have her thinking the timing was all bad. I can change the narrative. Can't I?

So is it worse," Zoe asked, eyes haunted, "when someone who is all alone dies, or when someone dies and leaves family and friends? I don't know.

When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I'm tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.