Quotes About Grief

There was nothing that amazed me more than parents that could channel the loss of their child into a crusade to protect other people's kids.

When Mom died I couldn't stop crying, but both Angie and I really believe she's in a better place.

Something severed when my brother died. I was living but not living. Andy used to lie on the bunk bed and cuddle me - I was his lion cub.

I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my family, came completely out of the blue after 59 years on this earth with no issues that we knew about, at least - sort of a normal run-of-the-mill guy who did his job and came home and had a family.

It was really difficult to tour on 'Psychopomp' for a year and do the press cycle and talk to people three or four times a day about my mom dying.

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.

Dallas McCarver is my angel. Not a day goes by where I don't think of him.

When the kids come home, we get back into the same routines: Sitting around the table, flipping grief to each other and laughing about it.

Grief has similar side effects of alcohol consumption, such as numbness, guilt, and depression, resulting in less alert and price-sensitive customers. In addition, the funeral industry is somewhat taboo in the sense that communities in general don't communicate with one another about what are acceptable practices in this industry.

My experience of my father's death was that it was still taboo; nobody would meet me after my father died because they didn't know what to say.

Bob has died in 'Kahaani' and so the tag should not be anymore with me now.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

In a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us. Fifteen were injured. And everyone - absolutely everyone - in the Douglas Community was forever altered.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

The only time I actually got mad at God is when my dad completely changed and was my closest friend, and then he was taken from me too soon.

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.

I still can't get over Sushant Singh Rajput's demise. I got to work with him in 'Dil Bechara.' He was such a jovial and promising guy with no starry tantrums.

Every soul belongs to God and exists by His pleasure. God being who and what He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full Lordship on His part and complete submission on ours. We owe Him every honor that is in our power to give Him. Our everlasting grief lies in giving Him anything less." —A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God 4

how do we experience a contrite heart? a grieving, broken, sorrowing, repentant heart?