3,968 Quotes About Grief

No goodbye is forever unless you can erase everything you ever knew about a person and everything you once felt.

I didn’t want to leave you yet. We had so much living and loving left, didn’t we? But you are strong, you will endure, you will even thrive, though you don’t believe me now. I know today you are sad. Let that sadness sit with you a bit.

Gripped by this familiar shame, she thought of the dead, for whom the absence of life meant they would never be hungry again. But life still lingered on for her, with hunger still a yoke around her neck. It was that which had tormented her for the past five years – that she could still feel hunger, still salivate at the sight of food.

When the raw pain is so unbearable and unbelievable, you may wonder if you can go on. But, you can, and will. And life can be good again—when you work at it.""It’s a conscious choice to decide to move through grief, mourn the loss of the person you love, and heal.

Gus still thought he was missing something, some special piece other people had, the thing that made people stay, and it broke my heart a little. It broke my heart that when we were younger, he'd thought I'd never even look at him.

We can never fully know the people we love. When we lose them, there will always be more we could have seen -

It never ends, the bruiseof being

Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief,turning down through its black water to the place we cannot breathe,will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear,nor find in the darkness glimmering, the small round coins, thrown by those who wished for something else.

I know people make poor decisions when they're grieving. It's not exactly an excuse, but maybe it's a reminder that we're all just humans trying our best.