Quotes About Grief

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

Despair is infidelity and death.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

It is so much easier to grieve for the dead than to care for the living. At least in death we are all perfect.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Death, lonely death, Beneath the withered leaves.

Birth, not death, is the hard loss.

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

Death makes sad stories of us all.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

No mother should lose her child.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.