Quotes About Grief

I put Algernon's body into a small metal container and took him home with me. I wasn't going to let them dump him into the incinerator. It's foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. I wept as I put a bunch of wild flowers on the grave.

Its getting chilly out but I still put flowers on Algernons grave.

There is no greater grief than that of a man with a broken heart who only just learned he had a heart at all.

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought for my family.

"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom: my son, my son!'"

I buried my dad on a Thursday and showed up for work on Friday.

David the shepherd by, and future king of Israel laments the death of his soul-mate and greatest friend, Jonathan. He cries, "I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me…"

"You have taken from me my closest friends and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape; my eyes are dim with grief."

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I'm supposed to do right now. Right now I can't sleep. It's right now that I can't eat. Right now I still hear his voice and sense his presence even though I know he's not here. Right now all I seem to do is cry. I know all about time and wounds healing, but even if I had all the time in the world, I still don't know what to do with all this hurt right now.

"Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really."

"Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end."

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

"Everyone can master a grief but he that has it."

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.