3,968 Quotes About Grief

Relationships continue even when they are radically changed by death, divorce, diagnosis, or another loss. Grief continues, too. For as long as we continue to live, we continue to grieve.

No matter what society, movies, or the nightly news would like you to believe, there is no finite ending to grief.

I let the wave or mourners flow through and over me, their kind and well-meant words drops in a tumultuous ocean of grief.

That's the thing with grief--you never know when it will sneak up on you.

At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate.

Once grief enters your life, it remains a part of your life whether you acknowledge it or not.

Grief looks, feels, and shows up differently to each person. Just like no two losses are alike, no two griefs are alike, either. You cannot know the full depth of another person’s experience and they cannot know the full depth of yours.

You cannot fix, change, or remove another person’s grief. You cannot “spare” someone the pain of grieving a loss. Your grief belongs to you; their grief belongs to them.

Grief is pervasive. It cannot be quarantined any more than love can be quarantined. Grief affects all areas of life.