3,968 Quotes About Grief

I have poured my heart out ….And now I am empty.

He didn't know kids, but he knew that Oriana was a fellow traveler. It scared him, it really did, but he sensed that, inexplicably, she needed something only he could provide. Winter was over, but spring had not yet come for him and Oriana. They were between uncharted seasons, at the cusp of change, but only at the cusp. He didn't know kids, but he supposed that sometimes a kid needed something she couldn't find at home, but only in the wild of the forest.

The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.

Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.

Dry your eyes mate, I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts, but you’ve got to walk away now, it’s over.

For Achilles, the death of Patroclus pushed him into a fury, but it was not only grief that drove him. It was also a sense of shame and guilt because he had not been there to protect his friend. Sometimes men in combat feel this sort of survivor’s guilt even though, realistically, they could have done nothing to prevent their comrade’s death.

There is nothing in the world that a couple of shots of vodka can’t cure

Losses are not retrievable. They are not setbacks. In the blankness left, perhaps other things come, a new thing, a different shape for the last thing's recollection.

One of my pa...friends... isn't doing very well.""...Is your friend dying?""...Yes honey, he is.""That's sad.