Quotes About Grief

But it is not my mother's heart that is buried there. Instead, I think that it is yours.

Grief and sorrow are one and the same. But until you feel regret for what is now forever out of reach, you do not truly mourn.

To heal, we must do more than grieve. We must also find a way to mourn.

What happend to her? To Miranda?' Ulysses shrugged. 'What happens to most children. She got sick, and never got better.' 'And your wife?' 'The same.' 'But you said you were married,' said Will, glancing down at Ulysses's ring, smooth and lustrous in the half-light. 'I'll always be married. But it'll be the next world when I see her again.

the look in her eyes told Hedström that she would never really be alive again. He'd seen it happen a few times in the course of his career. People who looked as if they were alive, who were breathing and moving about, and yet they were completely empty inside.

You are filled with anguish For the suffering of others. And no one's grief Has ever passed you by. You are relentless Only to yourself, Forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon Your own sadness from a distance, Just once with a loving soul— Oh, how you would pity yourself. How sadly you would weep. —Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours —Abraham Lincoln

Time does not soften my grief, nor can I ever be reconciled to my loss until the grave closes over the remembrance and I am again with him. —Mary Lincoln

Humans are so strange. Now I have seen you. It is odd. You do not look any different. Yet I know you must be. Dying changes a person.

Although each of these disparate groups trusted Garfield, it was not until they were plunged into a common grief and fear that they began to trust one another. Suddenly, a contemporary of Garfield's wrote, the nation was "united, as if by magic." Even Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy and a man whom Garfield had voted to indict as a war criminal, admitted that the assassination attempt had made "the whole Nation kin.

Mostly, she tried to get on with her life, even as she carried around her loss and her horror. The lesson she took from River's death was to be more selfish: since life is fleeting, don't waste it with the wrong people.

And that's just it, isn't it? That's how we manage to survive the loss. Because love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

You know, I thought about that a lot these last couple of years," She says in a choked voice. "About who was there for you. Who held your hand while you grieved for all that you'd lost?

That's the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.

Megan Luisa Garcia I WAS HERE

But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.

To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.

I'm in love with you, Cody. And I know that this is all complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way. Meg's death was a tragedy and the worst kind of waste, but I don't want to lose you because of the fucked-up-way I found you." "Fucking Ben McCallister. You make me cry more than almost any person I've ever met." "I shed a few tears myself last night.

it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

Denial, anger, acceptance

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

How does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever ceeated came from the worst kind of loss.