3,968 Quotes About Grief

Today’s ashes are tomorrow’s soil.

We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage.

We can’t even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.

I am going mad, she thought, I am in some sort of silent raging grief of which I shall die, everything has gone.

Loss is loss," Mal said. "You have the right to grieve.

I wondered how long the ripple effect lasted after someone died. Maybe until everyone who knew them was dead too? Or was it something that went on for generation after generation because the damage was handed down, touching each new person and changing them, even if they don’t know why?

What’s left when a loved one dies? What is the point of endless grieving and mourning? Can it bring the dead back to life?

The most painful thing in life is to watch the people you love wither away.

If you cut out a rectangle of a perfectly blue sky, no clouds, no wind, no birds, frame it with a blue frame, place it faceup on the floor of an empty museum with an open atrium to the sky, that is grief.