3,968 Quotes About Grief

Malcolm’s friend, Ishak, tells him to be strong. Be strong—it is also a saying used by New Zealand Maori who will urge, kia kaha. My husband repeats to himself, Be strong, as if trying it on for size. Yet he is finding it impossible to be strong. He realises that Ishak’s advice is that of a believer, one who sees a point to all this suffering. A superior being has willed it, and there is life after death. Malcolm admires that certainty, that belief. But he does not share it.

Amid this constant physical presence of fellow human beings, we gaze inward, trying to absorb what has happened with our lives and why the person we love the most is not here.

My dad—Victoria’s grandfather, “Poppa Jim”, as she called him—is forever waist-deep in the warm water of the harbour, holding a body.

I say it over again- when I lost my brother. A back road I knew once and now can't find.

Shutter all the windows, bar the door - Pain is what a house is for.Close your eyes when other eyes beseech, turn away from arms that reach.There is no commitment without cost - nothing is loved but can be lost.Better not to meet than have to part - there is no armor for the heart.But always light seeps in through cracks, and dust. No house is built that you can trust,So you may wake one day to find you care a little too much for a chair.

I have suffered through enough illnesses, trauma and heartbreak to finally understand that life will keep moving forward inexorably, if terribly at times. I am starting to realize that it can be delightful too, if I let it. My love is not diminished if I let go of sorrow. I almost believe that.

It’s the end of something I did not want to end-Beginning of hard times to come- But something that was not meant to be is done-And this is the start of what was-

Something within me imploded, like the universe had instantly folded inside itself into a mere dot, then exploded again; I wailed, startling the vet, who left the room.

It was like Abe took some part of him when he went, you know? He’s never been the same.