3,968 Quotes About Grief

I wish more than anything I could ask him something now. I was prepared to lose him, maybe. But I wasn't prepared for what happens after the losing.

Grief starts before anyone has gone missing.

When she died, it was like my house burned down.

Your Love & LightShines through MeEven in Your Physical Absence.

In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would.

Destroying what someone else cherished never brought back what you yourself had lost. All it did was spread grief like a contagion.

And, long after the amorous relation is allayed, I keep the habit of hallucinating the being I have loved: sometimes I am still in anxiety over a telephone call that is late, and no matter who is on the line, I imagine I recognize the voice I once loved: I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg.

There are some things you don't get over. You just accept them and keep breathing. That's enough.

When you love someone, but don't like parts of them, it complicates your memories of them when they're gone.