Quotes About Grief

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

I'll tell you one thing, when you have young men and women in combat operations and they lose their friends, one thing you quickly learn not to be ashamed of is tears.

The days will always be brighter because he existed. The nights will always be darker because he's gone.

Often, women who lose babies are blamed for the loss of those children and are ostracised.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

The first book I really loved was 'Little Women' - I'd have given anything for Beth to have been allowed to live; I remember crying very much over her death, trying to make the words change just by staring at them. I loved 'Anne of Green Gables,' too; 'What Katy Did;' and 'Peter Pan.'

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.

For me, grief is a static thing, and my movies have an extremely dynamic sort of movement.

I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.

Ever since my husband expired, I've been even more careful in bringing up my kids, and stayed away from work.

I won my fight on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my dad died the next day and I stayed in the game and won the whole thing.

I lost my biological father when I was 9, I lost my stepfather at 23. Both men had such a deep impact in my understanding of life.

Marlowe lay on the floor nearby, the black Labrador's brown, soulful eyes locked upon his master's still body.

Can you speak to the dead…like your sister?" Ms. Dupré's body seems to loosen, and her voice gets soft as a feather against your skin. "No, child. But you can say goodbye to someone even after he's gone. You just have to find a way that's right for you.

Nothing can erase the pain of losing someone you love you carry it with you for the rest of your life, however ever long that might be. The best you can hope for is that over time the wounds begin to heal, but no matter how strong we are no matter how hard we fight the scars always stay with us.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasts of it, is a devil.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,Or busy housewife ply her evening care.

When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.