3,968 Quotes About Grief

Life was never dull when you were around. It's going to be so quiet without you.

I feel guilt and anger slip away as swiftly as the equatorial sun. And in their place comes sorrow.

I know there is nothing to be gained in accumulating sticks with which to beat myself.

Sadness seems to come in waves. Big rolling waves. I have no choice but to ride them.

Silence falls for a moment. And then the evening continues, as it must.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

There is a point when the anguished soul finally despairs. A moment in life when the heart, the will, even the spirit crumbles. Some say that after much grief and drowning in tears, it is possible to pick up the pieces and carefully repair what was shattered. I say nay. For the chains of despair have no key, and the soul destroyed by that monster can never hope to be unaffected. There are things done that cannot be undone.

And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.