3,968 Quotes About Grief

Looking for solace from the wrong people can cause you more damage.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

Everyone said to bear the years. Nothing but time will make it better, they said. But time's a stretched rubber band bound to snap right back into place.

There'd always been an understanding between Havemercy and me; that we'd kill any man who came between us. I was holding up my end of the bargain now that she couldn't uphold hers.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Some people are silently struggling with burdens that would break our backs.

They think I'm not dealing with my grief, but I simply refuse to give them the satisfaction of seeing it. I won't let them console me and feel like they've played their part well and done all they could do. I will not let them make today about them, and I refuse to make today about me. Today is about him.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

He knew as deeply as he knew anything that sedation was the prelude to anxiety, stimulation the prelude to exhaustion and consolation the prelude to disappointment, and so he lay on the red velvet sofa and did nothing to distract himself from the news of his mother’s death.