3,968 Quotes About Grief

...it was Leticia, Shawn's girlfriend, kissing him goodbye between shrieks. 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.

...it was Leticia, Shawn's girlfriend, on her knees kissing his forehead between shrieks. 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.

It was strange how sadness reached so deeply into my chest for a man I had never spoken to.

Why does she deserve to be so angry? What has she truly lost? Quietly, to herself, she answers her own question: I have lost a child.The statement jolts her. She hears in her own voice a latch sliding into place. She says it again, phrased slightly differently, I have lost my child. Is it grief she feels? Is grief even a feeling to which she is entitled?

Love and loss coincide, I suppose. Love teaches us how to live with, and loss forces us to live without. We love so we can lose.

I guess the years aren't done stealing good people away from us. Soon, only the bad will remain.

what is grief but love persevering

But what is grief, if not love persevering?

In time, his grief had turned to anger and then drifted toward sorrow, and now, finally, it had settled into a lingering sadness that was a part of him, not the whole.