Quotes About Grief

When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside too.

The saddest three words in the English language: "Rest in peace."

I think when loved ones die, we absorb something from them that makes us who we are so we can continue on.

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.

When you're shivering with loss, let love keep you warm with memories.

Whenever you lose a loved one, even though your heart feels empty, always remember that it is still full — of love and thankfulness and memories.

Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.

As a culture, we seem to have an intolerance for suffering; we tend to want those who have experienced a loss of any kind to get on with their lives as quickly as possible. Often, by minimizing the impact of significant losses, pathologizing those whose reactions are intense, and applauding those who seem relatively unaffected by tragic events, we encourage the inhibition of our own grief.

Even if you attempt to ignore the loss, the emotional experience of it is implanted in your heart and mind, and no eraser will remove it.

Numerous studies have shown that your health risk is higher following a loss.

I only know that since he left, My life's so empty. Though I try to forget, It just can't be done.

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

Wir sind alle ein bisschen gestorben in diesem Krieg, glaube ich. Wie meine Mutter immer gesagt hat. Krieg tötet alle, auch die, die ihn überleben.

I saw you yesterday and felt a funeral inside. Like someone I love died, and they asked if I wanted to see the body.

Good for you, Jason. It's perfectly natural to be angry with your mother for dying. Everybody who loses someone special goes through that. It's just part of the grieving process.

The sound of her silk skirt has stopped.On the marble pavement dust grows.Her empty room is cold and still.Fallen leaves are piled against the doors.Longing for that lovely ladyHow can I bring my aching heart to rest?

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!

There are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome. The High Places of victory and union with Christ can be reached by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by laying down of our own will and accepting His. The lessons of accepting and triumphing over evil, of becoming acquainted with grief, and pain, and of finding them transformed into something incomparably precious; these are the lessons of the allegory in this book.

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

The trembling increased, a moan of grief was heard, nothing articulate - as a bird in the night sometimes laments alone.

Happy You know my girlfriend is dead. She fell off a cliff and died on impact.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

We love our dear ones deeply and miss them when they leave us. But we know that the bond of love is greater than death.

By the time the doctor came, we had lifted my father's body to the couch and covered it with a blanket. The doctor was a thin, sturdy man, bald, with thick glasses. He lifted the blanket and looked. He dropped the blanket. "He's dead, all right." I