Quotes About Grief

Grief is the conflicting feelings caused by the end of or change in a familiar pattern of behavior.

Grief is about a broken heart, not a broken brain. All efforts to heal the heart with the head fail because the head is the wrong tool for the job. It's like trying to paint with a hammer—it only makes a mess.

Everything changes, he thinks. The woman is gone and the world turns.

When someone we love is snatched from us, it often feels very hard to make plans.Sometimes people feel like they have lost faith in the future, or they become superstitious.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

The bastards murdered half my family.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

My homie lost his family and snapped, shot up half the block to bring them back.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.

I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.

My grandmother died of natural causes. Or as my family calls it murdered by the lord.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!