3,968 Quotes About Grief

There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him. Again and again she found herself forgetting, for the space of a heartbeat, that he was gone forever and that she could not turn to him for comfort.

It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely.

After breakage/there is always sleep.

The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for.

It's being without him that I'll never get used to.