3,968 Quotes About Grief

Then you go ahead and cry," Will said. That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would have not been able to stop, but his permission somehow quite my tears.

Wounded. Like Caroline Mathers had been a bomb and when she blew up everyone around her was left with embedded shrapnel.

i took into body my own self& thought i’d die from so much exposureto my own bereavement

The shores are flooded with tears, but the waves keep coming

Tears are the silent language of grief.

He is not here. Where did it go, my grief, my grief?Once you loved me on a hillside. I was prettyand tender as silence. Some things I knew well enough:first you love and then you lose.I had no idea there was nothing more.

Death of a beloved flattens and dulls everything. Mountains and skyscrapers and grand ideas are brought down to eye level or below. Great loves and large hates no longer cast such huge shadows or span so broad a distance. Connections do not adhere so closely, and important events lose some of their glow.

The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my kokum's lying here dead...She wrote up a report and closed my kokum's eyes, then walked out of the room and summoned a doctor. In the room beside us, another nurse was still laughing. Sometimes I don't like how life goes on. And sometimes I don't think it should.

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.