3,968 Quotes About Grief

It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief.

Synthesis is the gateway to Transcendence, because once you accept that you are forever changed and that life is forever different, you have to ask, "What are you going to do about that fact? Will the change be for the better or for worse?" It's the loss itself that becomes the catalyst for meaning. (pg 273)

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

My hands are dying.

My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.

If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.

He was never able to properly explain what happened to him that day. But he stopped being happy.