Quotes About Grief

Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.

I know I'm going to send my three kids off to college someday. I know my parents will pass away someday. It's one thing to say, 'I'll be able to deal with that day when it comes,' and it's another thing to find yourself at that day, dealing with it.

There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

I lost my family, " he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. "If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

I don't know how long we've sat here. All I do know is that my heart feels torn in two. Have I been here hours? Or minutes? Heartbreak is timeless".

I'm curious about why there's so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.

the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.

?It is not enough to write and deliver a funeral service for a grieving family…you must love them too.

Death is a misery.

But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.

she died of internal weeping

They were both sad that their love had died, but they agreed that there was nothing they could do about it. They would just have to part.

If love finds you again, don't fight it. Don't let grief hold you back. Love is a risk. There are no guarantees. But, in the end, it is always, always worth it.

Those we love are the only ones worth crying over.

Eyes as dark as her heart and as empty as her soul

Even in death she was more beautiful to him than she ever was alive.

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.

Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.