3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is like drowning. It's gnawing absence, and a threat. It's raw terror, it's bargaining for extra time, it's your heart outside your body in a hailstorm, it's nothing mattering anymore. But suddenly I'm seeing, as if for the first time, that it isn't unusual.

Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.

When I was visiting her a few years ago she hugged me and said, 'Tomorrow after you leave I will stand here at this window and remember that yesterday you were right here with me.'And now she's dead and I have that feeling all the time, no matter where I stand.

GriefThe borrowed handkerchief where she wept returned to me months later, starched, pressed.

The irony of freedom is that it is harder to find hope and purpose. Now i must come to terms with the fact that anyone i marry won't know my parents. If i ever have children, they won't know their grandparents. It isn't just my own loss that hurts. It's the way it ripples out into the future.

Loss will rip you apart, Amora... It will take whatever you give it, and it will never be satisfied. So don't you dare give it yourself

I stared at the hospice nurse's clipboard of notes, her purple scrubs, her file filled with Momma's health history, and I listened to the clicking of her pen and never looked her in the eye. She didn't belong in our home. She was just full of false information, cynical with age, and her pessimism about Momma's lifespan was making the house feel claustrophobic, like a coffin. She was closing the lid.

Perhaps somewhere in all of this if you look there's a proof of love.

Losing a loved one is a piece of your soul leaving this place. When enough pieces are lost, so is the soul.