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Quotes About Grief

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.
~ Dabo Swinney
It's a strange thing when someone passes away. It's always when you're not expecting it that you're affected by it. When we first started filming, we were filming with existing characters in a location that we'd never been before.
~ Greg Davies
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
~ Paul McCartney
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.
~ Emma Tennant
When someone dies, it's good to mail a note. Don't send an e-mail. You have to send a card. Everyone should have cards and stamps kicking around. I have some very simple stationery, just nice card stock with my name at the top. When the news is happy, e-mail is fine. You can e-mail congratulations about babies, weddings, anything. But when it's not? If it's a death or other bad news, you have to be more formal.
~ Tim Gunn
Heartbreak is not lessened by the day. Nor is sorrow diminished when washed by night. Sleep will not visit the incomplete soul.
~ Tim Irwin
The pain outlives the flesh.
~ Tim Lebbon
If you face grief and sorrow, please heed Jay's example: Take time to grieve in whatever way is natural for you, but then forgive. Give. Love. Celebrate.
~ Tim Sanders
The preacher said Madge's spirit belonged to Irvington, and Irvington must be there for her memory: "Let us not forget that in coming here today we have not fulfilled our obligations of friendship," he said. In the days, weeks, and years ahead, the family "will need us as never before
~ Timothy Egan
For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
~ Timothy Snyder
For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so. James Madison nicely made the point that tyranny arises "on some favorable emergency.
~ Timothy Snyder
For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
~ Timothy Snyder
The lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognising and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
~ Timothy Snyder
For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so. James
~ Timothy Snyder
Your father is dead," Braedon soberly interjected.
~ Tina St. John
Pain is always pain till death.
~ Tittu M John
Scratches inside the eye can be covered by a specs but Scratches inside our heart cannot be covered by anything
~ Tittu M John
I am thinking of Achilles' grief, he said. That famous, terrible, grief. Let me tell you boys something. Such grief can only be told in form. Form is everything. Without it you've got nothing but a stubbed-toe cry—sincere, maybe, for what that's worth, but with no depth or carry. No echo. You may have a grievance but you do not have grief, and grievances are for petitions, not poetry.
~ Tobias Wolff
Each dog marks a section of our lives, and in the end, we feed them to the dark, burying them there while we carry on.
~ Toby Barlow
If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.
~ Todd Strasser
Surviving is much more painful than death.
~ Tom Clancy
We knew that Father was loved in Orissa. But the ocean of emotion that greeted us on his death was an eye-opener.
~ Naveen Patnaik
I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.
~ David Small
My heart goes out to the families of our fallen officers.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith