Quotes About Grief

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

Some of us hover when we weep for the other who wasdying since the day they were born.

As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

She did not have time to wonder about his being late. He died bent over the sidewalk sign that stood out in front of the hardware store... He had not even had time to get into the store...

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

I know I should look away, let him grieve in private, but I cannot. The sweet girl that I knew only briefly is the key to this gentle beast who has captured my heart.

They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again...

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

you can pass a football, you can gas, but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.

Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips."Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

My Dad is everywhere and he is nowhere. My world tilts on a different axis, orbiting the sun of my own family- but still, I feel his warmth.

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.

If you love your dad, it's tough when he dies. If you don't like your dad, it's tough when he dies. Because you lose that guy. Whatever you didn't get, you miss. And what you did get, you miss.