Quotes About Grief

To lose someone you love Is to alter your life forever... The pain stops, there are new people, But the gap never closes... This hole in your hear is the shape of the one you lost- No one else can fit it.

The wise man observes the public disorder he cannot prevent; he observes it, and reveals by his sad countenance the grief it causes him; but as for individual disorders, he opposes them or averts his eyes, lest his presence be taken for approval.

She found her very pale and very still, all the life gone out of her.

Any little girl whose mama disappears will always have a hole in her heart that nothing will ever completely fill.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

I did not know the work of mourning Is a labor in the dark We carry inside ourselves

From its first startling image, Orhans Inheritance will seep under your skin and leave an indelible mark upon your heart. What lucky readers we are to inherit Aline Ohanesians gorgeous work.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

When my dad passed away, I was under a lot of stress with planning a funeral, trying to pick out just the right flowers and pictures, and simply trying to find the right way to say goodbye.

My dad died of a stroke.

My father was unwell when I was 11, had a stroke at 14 and died when I was 18. My mother going to work at seven in the morning and coming back to look after him and me and my brother left its mark on me.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

Losing both my daughter and my mother was real painful but it's made me stronger. Fighting for their memory is a motivating factor for me.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

I believe a child dying between a couple either makes you stronger, or it doesn't.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog Orson died, I did this very male thing of 'It's just a dog and I'll just move on.' I was very slow to grasp the emotion. But Orson is the reason I started writing about dogs.

There will be opportunities for hope and happiness, and happiness will return to your life, but you will always feel that loss if that person really meant that great a deal to you.

When I talk to people about going sugar-free, they almost go into a state of grief! But there are still options out there - like the sugar-free brownies in my book.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.