3,968 Quotes About Grief

Who is it that you want me to be?Who is it? I ask.O what part of me will amend your mercy?O what part of me will amend your wrath?

This seems hard now, but it’s this pain that’ll help you keep fighting. Unfortunately, it’s a double-edged sword. Promise me, you won’t let this pain destroy you.

Only those who have walked through darkness know the precious fragility of the light.

I have died at the ripe age of twenty.Smile, for the world didn't get a chance to disappoint me.I have died at the mature age of ninety.Smile, for my life was more than satisfying.I have died suddenly—out of the blue.Smile, for I didn't have to fall ill before you.I have died from a long illness.Smile, for I had the chance to say goodbye.I did not want to leave this Earth.But smile, for I am still here among you.Why are you crying?Can you not see I am smiling?

Questions, inside the larger mystery of sorrow, which contains us and our daily transit, and is large enough indeed to contain the whole shifting tidal theater where I make small constructions, my metaphors, my defenses. Against which I play out theories, doubts, certainties bright as high tide in sunlight, which shift just as that brightness does, in fog or rain.

Silence reveals everything.

I like to think you and Ben were like that. That you ended abruptly, but in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime

The man who doesn't howl at the moon when his mother dies is no man at all.

The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight