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Quotes About Grief

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.
~ Stella Padnos
His eyes close, and he draws a long breath. When they open again, they're colder than ever. "And that's where you'd be disappointed, Lou.There is no good to be found in Death.
~ T.L. Martin, Touched by Death
To love and be loved is so precious. And, when you lose the person you love, it tears a deep hole in your heart. If the gap and void within your heart is deep, so was the love
~ Luan
She is not with me, this grief is not bigger then this happiness that she is with her choice
~ Mohammed Zaki Ansari
What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.
~ Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful.
~ Angela M. Hudson
You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you
~ Darien Gee, Friendship Bread
Tell me about the love you've lost. Maybe my story won't seem so horrifying.
~ Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
The opposite of grief is not laughter or happiness or joy. It is love. It is love. It is love.
~ Akif Kichloo, Poems That Lose
She died without us by her side, and now, we are left with the scars. In time, perhaps they will fade, but for now, they're still hauntingly there reminding us of the loss and pain.
~ Sophie Palmer
Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
~ Brené Brown, Rising Strong
The cry of true love which is abandoned, is like the scream of the bird when it dies!
~ Viorel Muha
I always have a fear of loosing Love ones. Even if I don't want to see this happen, I will have to face the bitter truth sooner or later.
~ Ahmed Falah
When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.
~ Akshay Vasu
Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It's your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you."~The Grimoire
~ S.M. Boyce, Lichgates
We both know that pain comes for us all. It's almost a relief. Because if all of us are going to someday lose the people we love most, or be lost by them, then what is there to do but live?
~ Emily Henry, A Million Junes
There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that's watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.
~ Caroline George, The Vestige
No parent should have to bury their child.
~ Theoden
I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.""More than him has done that, " said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
~ Willa Cather, My Ántonia
I'm in love with you.""Good grief." She kept walking.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Losing someone doesn't scare me. Death doesn't scare me. What scares me is the inability to no longer feel the touch of the one you love.
~ Dominic Riccitello
When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you...
~ Tracey-anne McCartney
Death is just a door that only love can come and go through.
~ T.L. Moffitt
No man can have true sympathy who has not been, in some measure at least, "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," but the sorrow and grief must have passed, must have ripened into a fixed kindness and habitual calm.
~ Napoleon Hill