3,968 Quotes About Grief

Often the grave encloses, unknowingly, two hearts in the same coffin.

Imagine lying on ice and not being cold. We are all in corpse pose on the mats. What she really said was imagine a place of safety and peace.

I had no guidebook to tell me what to say to the kids--nor the time to find such a thing, if it even existed.

No profound remarks are required. The simplest message--I'm here and I care--is all that's needed.

...he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could loved in no other way.

Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.

Past the grief, there is light still, even if only in memory. Tell me about that light.

I know what it feels like to know you live because others have died, how the grief sits in you like a stone you cannot dislodge. I have to believe that if they could see us now, they would be proud of our fight and would not regret their part in it.

When a person you love dies, the calendar becomes a minefield. Anyone who has lost someone knows this. There is the loved one’s birthday. One’s own Birthday. Various national and religious holidays, if one is religious. All of these days are difficult in their own ways. But the anniversary is different. On the anniversary of the loved one’s death, you slip backward through time to this same day, one, five, ten years ago. You live it all over again, minute by minute.