3,968 Quotes About Grief

Having an immediate goal to work toward and enough shock in the system to fuel it can be an incredibly potent antidote to grief.

I sometimes forget their voices." I say. It's only been four months but that's fact. "They blend with the voices of people around me, but I could recognize their screams anywhere.

Thinking about how many years--decades, actually--I'd deferred my dream of learning to play the guitar, I find it remarkable that I finally took it up not long before Dennis got sick.

Just let yourself mourn, sweetie.You can't run from what hurts you, or like a dog smelling fear,that grief will just keep chasing with ever-sharp teeth.

Do I have what it takes to help my young family survive my husband's terminal illness?

If your kid goes to a therapist weekly, a peer grief group monthly, and a grief camp for a few days in the summer—which would be a lot of grief work, by the way—there are still somewhere around three hundred days in the year where it’s all on you, the widowed parent, to figure out what to do.

For the duration of Dennis's illness, I felt like Hester Prynne. I had the overwhelming sense that I was walking around with a giant 'FW' emblazoned on my shirt: "Future Widow.

The beeches deep in snow,I walk the dark woodsIn sorrow, sorrow.Your hand, where is your hand?- In the Snowy Night Woods

The question 'How are you' would usually throw me into an existential tailspin. It seems like such a simple question--but it would cause fits of uncertainty in me almost every time.