3,968 Quotes About Grief

How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back…All those years I spent unhappy with him …. when I should have been looking for you.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

It’s just never going to get any easier is it. It’s never going away, this missing you. It’s going to become a sadness I incorporate into myself – along with all the other sadnesses – and quietly carry around with me forever…

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.

Because in our pain we must find each other – mirror to mirror the grace of our shared humanity, the stunningly broken beauty of our shared grief. And you can let your grief see my grief and let our tears mingle into some kind of healing alchemy, and you’ll know what i know. That we are never alone. I promise. You and me? We are never, ever alone.

Sometimes life hurts. Sometimes it damages us—but we survive, believing there are better days waiting for us. (from Light Over Dark Water)