3,968 Quotes About Grief

The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain.

You have to acknowledge the person they were in their entirety. You have to accept who the person was in order to grieve the person who you lost.

It’s an honor to be in grief. It’s an honor to feel that much, to have loved that much.

What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.

For I did not know which was harder to bear: The echo of her passing, or the long silence that followed.

Ze zeggen dat rouw even diep is als liefde was. Sommige dagen kom ik tot het inzicht dat ik geluk heb gehad omdat ik Maria zo lang naast me heb gehad en op andere dagen stel ik vast dat als ik haar niet zo lang naast me had gehad het niet zo moeilijk zou zijn om haar te missen. Elke dag moet ik beslissen of ik dankbaar ben of eenzaam. Maar ik wil haar verdomme gewoon terug zien. Dat is wat ik wil.

Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!

Love came from all directions. On paper, on screens, in dishes and words and deeds. We’re thinking of you every minute.I’m sorry.We’re sorry.We’re so sorry…

Grief is a cocoon from which we emerge new.