3,968 Quotes About Grief

Thankfully, our disappointments matter to God, and He has a way of taking even some of the bitterest moments we go through and making them into something of great significance in our life. It’s hard to understand it at the time. Not one of us wants that thread when it is being woven in. Not one of us says, 'I can hardly wait to see where this is going to fit.' We all say at that moment, 'This is not the pattern I want.

Memories saturate my heart and the story of you spills from my eyes.          ­­—Grace Andren

Heartbreak comes just when you think nothing worse can happen.

In every room this is stillyour house, your history.And if in the morning I riselike a ghost, outside it is stillwinter and sun bright, and snowlike the memory of a long rain.

What was in our starsThat destined us for sorrow?

It takes so little... to lose it; grief and disappointment can takes one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

Rejection is one of the worse forms of pain. Loss is the worst. Grief haunts until you allow yourself to move on.

I have yet to meet one widow who hasn't changed in monumental ways as she has coped with her loss. Most of us have gotten to the point where we are not the "pleasers" we once were. We say what we think, we realize that life is precious, and we don't have time to be anything less than who we really are.