3,968 Quotes About Grief

To lose someone close to you is to enter an experience no amount of forethought or hindsight can free you from. You must live through grief. You cannot outsmart it, nor think through the fact of someone's being gone, and forever. You must survive the sorrow.

I have a RAGING SEA inside of me, trying to break free from ALL of me.

There is no moving on, just moving with.

It seems the recipe for human life is:3 lbs. of crumpled flesh generating too much electricity to handle,Atop bodies that aren't ever as touched as much as we please,Powered by hearts that end up magnetizing to the wrong people,Accompanied by souls that talk to other souls up until disease.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be 'Doctor of Life,' and I will be in good company. So many of us earn our 'Doctor of Life' degrees.

I sleep so you will be alive, it is that simple.

Because there is no such thing as an “almost” mother. Seven bouquets from your seven angels. Happy Mother’s Day, Princess.

But most of all I wrote about him - now called Max - my brother, our friend, missing now for 10 days. And I wrote about what I’d lost that morning. The witness of my soul, my shadow in childhood when dreams were small and attainable for all. When sweets were a penny and God was a rabbit.

Why is it so loud when you cry from grief? Because it must be loud enough for the missing one to hear, though it never can be. Loud enough to scale the sky and the backs of angels, or to fall through the earth to where they rest.