Quotes About Grief

There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

Before my mum passed away, I was a very extroverted person; I was very outgoing. I didn't care what people thought about me.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.

Mandy' came from grief and depression. I wanted this to be an outward volcanic expulsion of the emotion of my first film.

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

My journey with grief, with learning how to grow through it, rather than get over it, will be a lifelong one.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

At the age of 62, my father died of cancer - it was much too soon. My mother never remarried or got over it, never even thought of another man.

Abortion, more than not, leaves women with an aftermath of grief, guilt, and emotional overload. In a lot of cases, this can last a lifetime.

three weeks later she was breech-birth dead. Dixie Clay confided in her father that she'd caused them, these deaths her punishment, but her father was emphatic, one hand on each of her cheeks, No, no. It had nothing to do with her. And he made her promise not to think that the world organized itself to spite her or reward her,

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault.

We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.

It's all sad, Gruney," Hank said. "If we let ourselves know how sad it really is, there wouldn't be anything left of us.

All my friends are dead, or else they're not feeling too good.

My friend died of a broken heart . . . the cancer wasn't much help either.

Once I had a dog that died of lead poisoning . . . I shot him in the head.

Two hundred pounds of grief and heft if she was one-fifty. Bless her heart, just a babe of the times. Wants to be smiling and feeling good all the time. Smooth sailing as they lower the mama into the ground. Then there's you. What's your story?