Quotes About Loss

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

Most people deal with grief in an awkward way, and that can be funny.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.

Grief is a bit of a journey, and it is evolving all the time but I am very functional.

I grew up in a very healthy nuclear family, and I was fortunate enough to not have to deal with loss and grief as a child.

I know the pride of carrying our nation's flag abroad - and I have felt the grief of burying too many friends beneath that flag at home.

It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

It can be frightening. I think, 'I don't want to go.' But I give myself room to grieve.

I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.

Servicemembers deserve time to grieve the loss of their child instead of being forced to return to work.

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.

But when you're grieving, when you're going through something difficult, you lose your appetite. You don't want to eat. People are also always commenting on your weight, while at the same time forcing you to eat, so it's very complicated.

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.