Quotes About Grief

Especially with grief and heartbreak, you can go through these things and think, 'I will never be whole again.'

Loss and heartbreak are pretty universal.

My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

I've been blessed in many ways, but none of the heights from football can ever compare to the depths you go through when you lose a child.

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

With 'Hereditary', I wanted to make a film about what bothers me about life.

If someone has gone through a lot of emotional pain, including the loss of loved ones, that person may try to build a shell around his or her feelings to protect him- or herself from the pain.

I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

My best friend died in a high-speed chase.

We weep for gladness, weep for grief; The tears they are the same; We sigh for longing, and relief; The sighs have but one name, And mingled in the dying strife, Are moans that are not sad The pangs of death are throbs of life, Its sighs are sometimes glad.

In the windowless tomb of a blind mother, in the dead of the night, under feeble rays of a lamp in an alabaster globe, a girl came into the darkness with a wail.

And Summer, dear Summer, hath years of June, With large white clouds, and cool showers at noon; And a beauty that grows to a weight like grief, Till a burst of tears is the heart's relief.

It was now to Aggie as if they were all dead and in the blessed world together, only she had brought with her an ache which it would need time to tune. All pain is discord.

His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return

It can safely be said that no one has touched more lives, more deeply, than Death. Through this devastating memoir, it is hoped he will touch many, many more.

I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

des larmes plutôt gémies que pleurées, une douleur parlée plutôt que sentie

Nunca me ha ocurrido; no sé llorar. En cuanto las lágrimas acuden a mis ojos, los sollozos anudan mi garganta, me ahogo, mi respiración se mezcla con gritos y gemidos; y, como aborrezco dar espectáculos de dolor, he pensado en quedarme muerta; y así he de morir probablemente algún día, si alguna desgracia me sorprende estando sola.

J'ai peine à croire qu'en perdant ceux qu'on aime on conserve son âme entière.

All over now. He is either in joy or nothingness. (So why grieve? The worst of it, for him, is over.) Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing.

She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

We have loved each other well, dear Willie, but now, for reasons we cannot understand, that bond has been broken. But our bond can never be broken. As long as I live, you will always be with me, child.