Quotes About Grief

All my friends are dying. That's why I always wear black.

My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

I'm very emotional: to lose love is the same as dying.

Being a caretaker for someone who's dying was really, really hard at 25.

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.

Todo se olvida, muchacha. Olvidamos hasta la muerte de nuestros seres queridos, que es la mayor desgracia que puede acaecernos.

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paperclip. The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like the body of a boy.

One of the things I have learned about death is this: no matter how grief stricken you are, no matter how much you miss them, yearning for their laughs or hands or eyes, your relationship to the dead continues long after their bodies are gone. Memory is not simply a way of holding on, it is a reencounter. Their visits continue as long as you do..

Potato potato, your death is now my sorrow

A mother who tries to console her broken heart by fancying her departed child absent on his wonted chase after the dragon-fly, hums, How far to-day in chase, I wonder, Has gone my hunter of the dragon-fly!

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. – Aeschylus

It's just a fact that once we lose our parents and grandparents, no one in our lives will ever love us like that again.

Along with the other losses I've grieved in the past three years, I feel a deep pang of mourning for the death of the woman I used to be.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs. – Emily Dickinson

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. – Ovid

about death and violence. Noah would deny it.

When I tried to sing by myself, I felt sad and empty, for inevitably my father's favorite songs came to me, and before I got to "und auf den Wiesen blühen die Blümelein rot und blau" (and on the meadows bloom the little flowers red and blue), I had to hide and cry. He was buried somewhere in France, and I was sure no one had planted a flower on his resting place. Who would have, for a soldier who had fought for Hitler?

On the day I learned of Vati's death, my outlook on life changed profoundly. I had discovered that a good day could never be trusted to remain good, indeed, a good day would inevitably lead to disaster, and I must always be prepared for the worst. The glass was now half empty.