3,968 Quotes About Grief

I felt great empathy for my friend, as one form of cancer after another emerged to challenge him. I felt sympathy for his suffering that surely clawed at his daily routines, always active and busy, but he rarely verbalized complaints while courageously challenging his archenemy. He met pain and physical decline with 600-calorie workouts; he discarded anxieties somewhere along innumerable running trails; he faced death by running through life at full stride.

At home that night, I was working on my mythology report when Phoebe called. She was whispering. When she went downstairs to say good night to her father, he was sitting in his favorite chair staring at the television, but the television wasn't on. If she didn't know her father better, she would have though he had been crying. 'But my father never cries,' she said.

And yet I would not be a child again.For surely as the night succeeds the day,So surely will their mirth turn into tears.And I would not return to happy hours,If I must live again these weary years.I would walk on, and leave it all behind:will walk on; and when my feet grow sore,The boatman waits—his sails are all unfurled—He waits to row me to a fairer shore.

Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, each far too little and yet too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer, with that bittersweet release lingering in the doorway, but never quite being sent all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place.” ― Connie Kerbs

Everyone for whom I would have cried has already died.

Grief is like an ocean. It comes in waves - some waves are bigger than others and you cannot prepare for it.

Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.

Grieving the loss of a loved one—whether human or animal—is not only permissible, it is essential.

She meant well. But knew nothing about children and the anguish they suffered.