3,968 Quotes About Grief

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.

Unresolved grief inside a person is tragic; unresolved grief inside a nation is catastrophic.

Concluding a life takes time.

The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

Finally, rocking the whole harbour and carrying to every city windows; besetting kitchens with dinner on the stove, and shoddy hotel bedrooms where sheets are never changed, and desks waiting for children to come home, and schools and tennis courts and graveyards; plunging everything into a moment of grief and ruthlessly tearing even the hearts of the uninvolved, the Rakuyo's horn screamed out one last enormous farewell. Trailing white smoke, she sailed straight out to sea.

Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt.

For the last three years, he’d held his body as taut as a bowstring. He couldn’t imagine ever feeling at ease again.That was one more reason why the notion of sex with someone new was so difficult. Letting go like that required a level of surrender he wasn’t sure he had in him to give. Trust in another person to see you at your most vulnerable and not take advantage.

It reminded her of holding hands on the deck of a swaying boat, when, without warning, the other person lets you go. That moment between when your hand is empty and when you reach the railing can take years.

Grief from the war casts a shadow that at times was dense and at others seemed as pale as a length of gauze, but it was never gone.