3,968 Quotes About Grief

There can be this hierarchy of grief. It’s understandable but not always helpful.

This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you.And it will happen to you. The details will be different, but it will happen to you.That's what I'm here to tell you.

Everyone was in scrubs. I noticed one man who was not in scrubs. “Is this the wife,” he said to the driver. Then he looked at me. “I'm your social worker.” And I guess that was when I knew.That's something else to remember. If they give you a social worker, you're in trouble.

There’s only so many times a heart can break.One day, it will be okay, but it'll heal all wrong.It’ll heal with you outside of it.

And you are forced to say, "No. I have to get back to my family. This is the most convenient time for me to have him poisoned." And you know you are a monster after all, a sick animal that no one has the decency to put down.

It doesn't seem enough, and as he starts them off, you want to call after him, tell him how you too question the ways of faith, the injustice, the never-ending losses, that it stuns you too, that you still grieve for Mrs. Goetz and Arnie and Eric Soderholm just as their families do, though everyone else seems to have forgotten. Lydia Flynn, the tramp behind Meyer's, the men in the swamps of Kentucky. If a sparrow fall, you want to say, it is not lost. I will remember. We are all saved.

It is not love, this feeling. It is grief.

You don't need to know people in order to grieve with them. You grieve with them in order to know them.

As life continues, so will grief.