3,968 Quotes About Grief

Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can be no escape of reprieve. You must toil laying down the foundation stones of acceptance, stone by stone, until you have paved your way to your new life.

This raw sorrow. This rock of pain in my chest is the ocean of tears I hold in my heart for you, which I must cry one by one.

I wish I wen' spend less time being haunted and mo' time facing my pain, so dat way--me an' her--we could have been living wit' his memories instead of hiding from dem.

If you’re watching over me, I hope I’m living a life worth watching.

I've been too tired to post much for a few days. Or maybe more precisely, too tired to think about what to post.

The first morning passed, and the first afternoon, then the first shift back at work. time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Never had I thought of the dead Lady O as someone who had been precious, as my own family was precious to me.

Matron Kim's eyes turned red-rimmed, and in that moment, I remembered she was a mother.

It breaks my heart now to remember that Megan wanted to give Dennis the gift she made at school right away--in case Daddy dies before Christmas.