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Quotes About Grief

If he comes back," she nodded. I thought I saw tears in her eyes but I was mistaken. In all my life, I was never to see her cry. And also he was never to come back. Without interrupting each other, we both said at the same time, "Let's never get out of touch with each other." And we never have, although her death has come between us.
~ Norman Maclean
Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind.
~ Norman Maclean
At Ilinskoye, Serge left the room in which his young sister-in-law had died completely untouched, locking a door that would never again be opened by anyone but himself.
~ Christopher Warwick
I'm still alive, but I feel myself dying, person by person by person by person.
~ Chuck Klosterman
I came to Party Crashing because accidents happen. People you love will die. Nothing you treasure will last forever. And I need to accept and embrace that fact.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Ev­ery­one else I could call is dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Even after you're dead it hurts just as bad when your heart swells up, stretched bigger and bigger like an aneurysm of tears getting ready to boom.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I love knowing a lot of people, but the downside is that means going to a lot of funerals.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The problem with loving so many people is that you lose so many.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
everything you ever love will reject you or die.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You're down man, and man, oh man, it hurts. Still it isn't anything tragic until Mom and Dad run over. Oh, you poor, brave thing. Only then do you cry.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. Oh, but now there was dying and death and loss and grief. Weeping and shuddering, terror and remorse. Now that she knows where we're all going, Marla feels every moment of her life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
L'unica cosa che ho imparato è che tutto quello che ami morirà. La volta che incontri qualcuno di speciale, puoi farci affidamento il giorno che è già morto e sepolto.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Es fácil llorar cuando te das cuenta de que las personas a las que quieres acabarán por rechazarte o morirse.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Neptej se, jestli se mi poÃ…â"¢ád stýská po rodi?ích. Neptej se mÄ›, jestli jeÅ¡tÄ› bre?ím steskem po domovÄ›. SamozÃ…â"¢ejmÄ› že mrtvým se po živých stýská.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Eventually, when I stepped back inside the parlor door, only my nana's body was left on the sofa. The best of her--her laugh, her stories, even her coughing--was gone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Grief is like a cut in a strange place. You never know when you're going to bump into it, make it hurt again.
~ Chuck Wendig
Healing, recovering, from a death is also a form of estrangement, a further loss.
~ Claire Harman
And then, into the fantasy, as into a dream, would come the thought: it's not like this anymore; the world has changed. Just the way, even at that time fully two years after my mother's death, I'd catch myself thinking about her as alive; and would suddenly remember, an admonitory finger of grief upon my breast, that she was gone.
~ Claire Messud
Goodbyes do hurt. They hurt so much that we would do anything to avoid feeling that pain again.
~ CLAMP
If she gets caught and punished by the God King…it'll break Ashura's heart again.
~ CLAMP