3,968 Quotes About Grief

Before I could catch it, my heart slammed straight down to my feet, leaving me with a massive hole in my chest. It was amazing how I could just be going along, doing okay, and then suddenly-wham-I missed her so much even my fingernails hurt.

It takes a year, nephew... a full turn of the calendar, to get over losing someone.

Maybe the thing that we’re losing is the very thing that has caused us to lose everything else in the first place.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.

If you were a truly dedicated brother Thomas, you would be at Babara's side,” Anna said. “I would hope that if I collapsed, Christopher would weep inconsolably and be incapable of consuming meat pies.

Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows of things gone; not just the people themselves but everything connected to them. Was this my future? Every moment, every tiny thing I saw and did and touched, weighted by loss. Every space in this house andmy town and the world in general, empty in a way that could never be filled.