3,968 Quotes About Grief

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

The moon and the stars sigh. The days elude them, but they are the ones who witness the sorrows of the night. How they wish they could resolve the unbound grief of the human heart. If only, they could know what it was looking for. If only, unbound joy could be the answer.

The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.