Quotes About Grief

She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.

Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.

Death is funny in that it brings out the best and the worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear. The reality was starting to set in.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

After Megan's death, Tyler spiraled downward into an abyss of steely blankness, as if Megan were the only color in his life, and without it, there was only white, black, and gray. He numbed his pain with booze, and slowly, wrenchingly, pulled away from all of us, isolating himself in an angry cocoon, where none of us could reach him and he didn't want to be reached.

When you lose your parents young, there is simply a blight on your psyche that becomes part of your being. Really,

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.

Two days after my dad's funeral, my mom went on a mission. I never understood it until then--that sometimes a spy doesn't need a cover so much as she needs a shield.

Sweetheart, when you lose someone, you lose a little bit of yourself, too. And that missing piece? Sometimes you have to lose the rest of yourself to find it.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

I was thirteen when I saw my mother die, when I told my story. When I started "having a hard time," as my grandfather likes to say. Would they have locked me up if I'd been thirty? If I'd been a boy? It's a question I do not dare to ask.

I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief

Four years ago my dad went on a mission. He didn't come home. No one knows what… happened." Then Zach looked at me and said the words I've always known but never dared to utter: "Somebody knows.

death is the only thing that could have kept him from you

There was a time that [my mother's death] would have made me cry, but that's the good thing about being dead inside, I guess. Dead people don't feel pain.

I don't think Rachel Morgan would want to work beside the man who killed her husband. - Townsend

Cuando pasa algo malo, pero malo de verdad, por mucho que llores, lo peor no es llorar, que eso a veces está bien, porque te quedas nuevo, lo peor empieza cuando no puedes llorar más, y entonces te das cuenta de que la tristeza es algo sucio, como un grumo gris, espeso, una pelota de barro dentro de los pulmones, que pesa, y la notas al respirar, todo el tiempo.

Jairus came to Jesus with faith. But when he heard of his daughter's death, how grieved and hopeless he must have felt. Yet Jesus, honoring that first bit of faith, told him not to worry. "Hold onto your faith," was His message in this father's darkest hour.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

the drowned Enid Stibbins, Ernest's first wife

Grief, she learned, had many faces and all of them hurt.

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.