686 Quotes About Grief-and-loss

If love is the only thing we can take with us when we die, what's left for the people who stay?

The tears spill as I pull out of the intersection. I leave him to it, his own personal grieving process. He doesn't need me telling him everything will be okay when we both know it won't. Instead I give his hand a firm squeeze. My role is clear to me now. I will be the strong one. I'll be good at this. I am aware of my limitations. I'm not warm, I'm not especially kind. But I can be strong. I can allow Tom to slip away knowing I will be all right. This, I can give him.

A lot of people are able to turn their grief into something positive. Maybe you’re destined for some kind of job in law enforcement.

Gone you are and before I,another star to beautify the sky.Take me with you for I thirst to die,you never did wish to see me cry

It was as though his son cheated him by depriving him of his beloved presence, the sweet and treacherous thief had plundered his heart. If Johnny had died in any other way, cancer or leukaemia… he could have grieved with a clear heart, cried also. But suicide seemed a deliberate act of spite which the Judge resented.

They say that when people stop loving each other, they become indifferent. Is that what we were - indifferent?

You don't need matching DNA for someone to be your brother, Andrale knows this. And you definitely don't need the same blood to lose a part of yourself when someone dies.

She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

I miss that feeling of connection.Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the same time I was thinking about him.