Quotes About Grief

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

Love is frightened at the intervals of insensibility and callousness that encroach by little and little on the domain of grief, and it makes efforts to recall the keenness of the first anguish.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

I took 'P.S. I Love You' thinking it was going to be a little funny, and I ended up crying every day on that film.

I think I felt God's love the deepest when I experienced my deepest loss. Amazing how God does that!

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

My divorce was like a death - a genuine death of commitment and love. After I got over the shock, I was like, tell me theres some way we can save this. We can save this, right?

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.

And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling. I love the dead.

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

Although our love never dies, the pain of our loss can eventually dissolve.

Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.

I'm wishing this was something else I was writing, but, Pops, we've got to let you know we love you and know you'll always be with us.