Quotes About Grief

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

'Say Her Name' was a book I never wanted to write and never expected to write. I wasn't trying to do anything except write a book for Aura - a book that I thought I had to write.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Christmas is not a time for laughter. Christmas is a time for pain.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.

I've lost friends and people that I've admired. The loss of any life is a travesty.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

When I was young I lost everything.

When you've been raised in a home of love, and for your loved one to be taken away from you through violence, a lot of emotions go through your mind.

Losing a loved one is never easy.

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.

I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

My mama died when she was 35 years old.