3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is not a contest. What happened was horrible. No one should face it. Especially not from their own countrymen. It’s a crime against humanity. Against decency and reason.

When the Self dissolves into a world of separate selves and death becomes real, love becomes a pact with grief; what is gained then is the inescapability poignant fact of individuality. There will never be another you, and I love the stubborn particularity of you because you will disappear.

Being alone was like trying to breathe without lungs. Something, someone, had to replace that misplaced part.

I know you grieve. I know your mind has turned against you, and I understand why. But many of us are grieving, and there's more sorrow on the horizon, so I need you-we need you-to pick up the pieces of yourself and fight.

But a diagnosis is not a cure. I don't know what to do with Eric's voice now, the remembered syllables, the hope.

Grief rises and falls with every breath, clings to the chambers of the heart and makes each step we take a challenge. It is a dense space, filled with sensations that carry our tears and our palpable aching. We cannot escape these times; we cannot outrun what is intimately entangled in our moment-to-moment world. It is now that our apprenticeship is most called upon. We are asked to stand alongside these difficult and painful visitations, these epiphanies of lamentation.

Every child deserves a chance to thrive--even if their parent has died.

When God plucks a flower, we have neither the audacity nor the power to snatch it back.

I think she hoped her voice would somehow keep him alive, would clot the blood. But I think she knew deep down in the deepest part of her downness she was kissing him goodbye.