Quotes About Grief

There's no such thing as simple mourning for anyone, really, except that as writers our grief becomes woven into the fabric of our work as well as into our source material.

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to relearn how to breathe without carrying this big, empty cave inside me.

They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman.

Each death frames previous deaths in a different light, and even deaths to come. During the time my mother was sick, I found myself crying uncontrollably over the deaths of people I barely knew.

For in grief nothing 'stays put,"' C. S. Lewis writes. "One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

All of these women were here for the same reason. They were said to have been seen at night rising from the ground like birds on fire. A loved one, a friend, or a neighbor had accused them of causing the death of a child. A few other people agreeing with these stories was all that was needed to have them arrested. And sometimes even killed.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

Mother died today, or maybe it was yesterday.

Oui, les mots, ma patrie, les mots, ça console et ça venge. Mais ils ne me rendront pas ma mère.

Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

We grieve only for what we know.

I mourn myself; this is my right.

Para que las palabras no basten es preciso alguna muerte en el corazón

Blue eyes as a response to this death right next to me, which speaks to me and is me.

when the day deranges us displacing our ennui angel presented under the vaults gather our grief

Enseguida el niño comprueba que ha sucedido algo mucho más terrible que los fantasmas sin forma que venían atormentándolo: en un segundo, su vida ha transcurrido en su casi totalidad. Sus padres están muertos hace mucho. La casa es otra. Nadie escucha su llanto.

Por eso, ser familia es serlo también de nuestros vivos y de nuestros muertos, de los recuerdos, de lo que pudo ser y no fue y de las conversaciones que quedaron en el aire y que repetimos en voz alta cuando estamos solos, invocando la cercanía de los que se fueron antes.

Isabel's indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

we wept within the moment that was dividing our life into before and after, whereby the before was forever foreclosed, while the after was spreading out, like an exploding twinkle-star, into a dark universe of pain.

I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must never stop. It is our duty to keep life going.

Se quedó quieto, observando, aspirando el olor de la muerte. El cuello de Bernie estaba muy delgado, pero los lóbulos de las orejas, que ya habían alcanzado un tamaño enorme, eran grandes y carnosos. El cuerpo que yacía en aquella cama de hospital no debería pertenecer al padre que Joshua conocía. ¿Adónde había ido a parar el verdadero Bernie?

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

A guardian angel will help us," Lucia replied, "be prudent and resign yourself." Her mother added more advice along the same lines, and the groom left at last, his heart in turmoil. He kept repeating to himself the same strange words. "In the end there is justice in this world." For a man overcome by grief truly does not know what he is saying.

No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.