3,968 Quotes About Grief

Crying doesn’t mean you’re weak ... Sometimes it’s what you need to do to get strong again.

It hurts so terribly to cry, but not so much as not being able to cry.

Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

He uncurled his fingers and stared at the gray phone resting in his palm. He didn't think a small thing like this should hurt so much, but the grief that punched through him left him in pieces.

What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

We are not always someone else's half, but they can be ours. You'd think two halves make a whole, but some two halves make a hole.

One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence.

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don’t want you to think of me and feel sad.