3,968 Quotes About Grief

Can you miss someone you've never known?Mary does.

Loss is part of our story, it isn’t the story.

Living with a death sentence, having no idea when it will be enacted, is to straddle a void. Every word or gesture, every breath of wind or drop of rain matters to a painful degree. Pg 243

Grief is like being strapped to a bad fairground ride you never paid to go on.

You couldn't calculate grief, Josh knew, couldn't put a value on it.

And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I had taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings: hey manito! For I had thought that this last touchstone of the past, at least, would be where I'd left it.

There is no point in honoring the dead. I have seen too much to believe otherwise.Grieve for lost potential, the end of possibilities, the eternally silence demise of promise.Grieve for that, Fear Sengar, and you will understand, finally, how grief is but a mirror, held close to one’s own face.

Are you in there? If not here, then where'd you go?They say the living arena Earth and the dead are out,But where are those trapped in-between high and low? Where exactly are you wandering about?Why would this happen to a human being? I want to curse God and call him a fake,But I am too desperate to risk ruiningThe chance he may choose to help today.

Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the funeral? I mean, the burial?No, I did not.Because you weren’t sad?Because it was nobody’s business if I was.