3,968 Quotes About Grief

The regret of unfinished business is particularly oppressive, even haunting in its oppressive grief.

After he died, there was a deep calm to his face; he seemed a kind of unfathomable, still well which opened on and down beneath the suddenly smooth surface of his skin…The heat in him lasted a long time. I loved that heat. I don’t know how long I held his face and his shoulders and stroked him; as he began to cool I kept my hands on his belly, where the last of his warmth seemed to pool and concentrate. Here the fire of the body came to rest, smoldering longest, down to the last embers.

The dead do notbecome stars or ghosts.in fact, they arehardly undone.Soon their randomly dispersed partsreappear oneby one onforeign hosts-the beloved earor freckled arm, separate as a milagro or braceletcharm. It is notgrotesque, thoughodd. Even a piecedoes us some good.“Charms

The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.

Life is so sweet even though it is full of lies and half truths...

Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.

Why do we complicate life, when it was meant to be very simple?

I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

Whether the judge all those years ago agreed that Jenny had no right to what she wished, or whether her plainspoken grief, which she shouted out in silence from her eyes, moved him, or disturbed him, or confused him, doesn't matter. He whispered, 'Life.' And so she lived. Is living still. Will go on living, to the end of that whisper.