Quotes About Grief

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.

You can't really put a time limit on how long someone will grieve.

Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show

I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

We can not imaging the pain, You must all be feeling At the loss of Your loving son But just to let you know You are in our thoughts, At this very sad time.

We know that you must be very Upset and sad But just to let you know That we are here for you Should you need Help and support At this very sad and hard time That you must be going through

Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225

Grief is a matter of the heart and soul. Grieve your loss, allow it in, and spend time with it.

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

This comes with my/our deepest sympathy, and the hope that the dear memories of your loved one and the passing of time will ease your sorrow.

I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.

Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that way, I cried it out all the time. I expressed my feelings.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die;