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Quotes About Grief

Our atheist thoughts go out to his family following their loss.
~ Brian Spellman
How terrible, " said Eragon, "to die alone, separate even from the one who is closest to
~ Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.
~ Anthony Liccione
Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.
~ Joan Didion
I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.
~ Maija Haavisto, The Atlas Moth
I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.
~ Zadie Smith, Swing Time
We know everyone we love is going to die, but we don't know it, can't possibly believe it, she thought, or long ago I would have gone and started digging until I had a hole big enough to lie down in.
~ Unknown
There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?
~ Ilya Ilf
O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust...
~ Unknown
Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.
~ Patricia Briggs, Night Broken
Chip, she's gone, " and he said, "I thought I'd feel her looking down on us, but you're right. She's just gone
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.
~ Clive Barker
It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died.Long time.
~ Unknown
The best to do with a death was to move on from it.
~ Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
There's no getting better, Storm. This is it." There's no coming back from the dead.
~ K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths
They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.
~ Dan Wells, Fragments
To mourn is not to fear
~ Unknown
Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.
~ Tony Harrison
Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.
~ Salman Rushdie
Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.
~ Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge
The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.
~ Anonymous
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
~ John Bacon
Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
~ Sally Mann