3,968 Quotes About Grief

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; therefore, the relationship continues. The work of grief is to reconcile and redeem life to a different love relationship.

I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.

Grief and resilience live together.

Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.

The sorrow. It came in waves. Just when she thought the storm had subsided, it ambushed her all over again.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

I'll never throw these small things away. There will never be a time when I don't want them, all the tiny parts of Cal that made a life.