3,968 Quotes About Grief

Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.

Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubtyou remember the last days.I play them over and over:I lift your wasted bodyonto the commode, your armslooped around my neck, aimingyour bony bottom so thatit will not bruise on a rail.Faintly you repeat,"Momma, Momma.

In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.

exactly half the phenomenal world is gone

Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy

Everybody here is infirm. Everybody here is infirm.

For your love given ask no return, none. To love you must love to love.

Your dying was a difficult enterprise.First, petty things took up your energies,The small but clustering duties of the sick, Irritant as the cough’s dry rhetoric.Those hours of waiting for pills, shot, X-ray Or test (while you read novels two a day) Already with a kind of clumsy stealthDistanced you from the habits of your health.

Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors and there are moments of peace, and pleasure, as I lie in between the blows.