3,968 Quotes About Grief

I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.

Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow. And tonight, after crying until I am empty, I have a rare glimpse of my own interior landscape - wounds piled like tiny skeletons into the reef of conscious adult life. I am aground amid my conquered traumas, stranded as a consequence of my achievements.

...grief had no mercy, time limit, or expiration date.

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life

I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.